The Fallen Merman - Chap 254
In the eighth month after Rimbaud led the sea clan to evacuate the institute, 60% of the sea surface has been solidified and sealed, the maritime transportation industry has been forced to stop, international trade has collapsed across the board, a large number of workers have lost their jobs, related companies have closed down, and stocks have turned green. , Every day in the bustling commercial center, ordinary citizens hold placards and parade. The angry civilians pour their grievances on the government, but they do not know that the government is helpless.
Almost all icebreakers are sent to the sea to remove the solidified seal on the sea surface, but it is only a drop in the bucket, and the speed of removal is far less than the speed of solidification.
The limited groundwater and fresh water in rivers and lakes are rapidly depleted by a large population. Due to the lack of ocean regulation, only unused fresh water and used sewage are added to the cycle. There is no more rain all over the world, even a small amount of rain is exhausted. is acid deposition.
The food-growing areas withered first, followed by the green plants in all corners of the land. It can be seen from the satellite map that the rainforest area is visibly shrinking by a considerable amount every day, and an unprecedented large-scale drought has swept the world. , the dust storm lands, looting every exposed building.
Although the country is trying to regulate the water price, it is still inevitable that some people maliciously hoard drinking water and sell it at a high price. The ordinary mineral water with a price of 300 yuan was snapped up as soon as it was put on the shelves, and then the price was quickly raised to 600 and 800, still Someone buys it.
Later, prices stopped rising because money was no longer valuable.
Severe water scarcity did lead to a short period of human solidarity, with people sharing food and fresh water, but this atmosphere of good mutual help lasted only a month, and people went from generosity to madness, rushing to blocks and homes to **** stocked mineral springs. water and compressed grains.
The border conflict has intensified, and oil is no longer a precious resource in people’s eyes. Instead, small countries with freshwater lakes are frequently invaded.
Temperatures are rising faster, and the radioactivity in the air has eerily increased to near critical levels.
It’s only April, and the average temperature in the northern hemisphere has soared to 42 degrees Celsius. City dwellers can only maintain normal life with their air conditioners on all day. Electricity conflicts lead to trips, electric circuits burn out, and entire buildings are scorched and dry. Air swallowed.
Due to the heat and dryness, wildfires ignited in various areas, and the rampant flames quickly engulfed the remaining oasis.
These days, the PBB army has been maintaining order on the streets and soothing people’s emotions. Under the scorching sun, He So-called wiped a sweat and squatted in the shadow of the armored vehicle to rest.
Civilian riots occurred frequently, so soldiers had to wear thick body armor and combat uniforms to protect themselves. More than a dozen team members were already in a coma from heat stroke and were taken away by the medical association.
He Wenxiao secretly brought a bottle of water, looked around like a thief, then unscrewed the cap and gave He Zhen a sip into his mouth: “Captain, take two sips.”
“Where did you get it.” He So-called licked his dry and peeling lips, his flaming throat felt much better after a little soaking, he pushed the water bottle back, “Drink it, I’m not thirsty. .”
“He has it. IOA’s training soldiers gave it to us.” He Wenxiao smoothed the dreadlocks on his head, rubbed his forehead with sweat, sat on the ground and fanned with his helmet.
Not far away, on a semi-trailer with IOA printed on it, doctors from the Medical Association were distributing medicines. Among them were two children with the logo of Aphid Island trainees standing behind them. Tan Qing and Tan Yang, who had hydrogen-oxygen glands, were busy making medicines. Water is given to civilians, and people are anxiously waiting in line with tools to fetch water.
Under the scorching sun, the temperature inside the iron container was astonishing, and Tan Yang consumed so much that he fell down when his knees softened.
“Xiao Yang? Doctor! Teacher Han! My sister fainted!” Tan Qing hurriedly knelt down and took Tan Yang into her arms to release the comforting pheromone to regain her strength.
The citizens who were waiting for the water behind the team didn’t know what was going on, but felt that the team suddenly stopped moving, cursing and commotion.
Some people rushed directly into the semi-trailer to **** the water for the doctors to clean the instruments. Han Xingqian could only protect his interns behind him. During the dispute, the civilian who carried the knife accidentally scratched his arm, and there was a little blood on the white uniform. As he grew bigger and bigger, a mother holding a child rushed up, and frantically pressed the baby in the swaddle to Han Xingqian’s wrist and licked his blood.
“Back off! Let go of the doctor!” He Suen fired twice into the sky, and the deafening sound of gunfire finally knocked back the irrational people.
From the day Rimbaud left the land with hatred and grief, everything was out of control as if the brakes had failed.
Outside the IOA building, security guards desperately stopped another wave of protesting armed civilian groups.
Yan Yi was sitting at his desk with a remote multi-person conference running on his computer, but he was extremely tired and kept rubbing his dry eyes and swollen temples.
Some organization leaders asked Yan Yi’s opinion, Yan Yi cheered up and replied with a sigh, “I already said it half a year ago, and I can only negotiate this matter by handing it over to him. This is the only one. Chances are, I still stand by my opinion.”
The leaders who sternly accused Yan Yi of being irresponsible a few months ago fell silent together.
They don’t have much sympathy for Ellen, it’s just unacceptable. The powerful weapons and wealth they are proud of show the fragility and invulnerability when confronting the ocean, which is a kind of pride and self-respect for human beings. insult.
“Can you guarantee that Siren will immediately unblock the sea area after taking over Ellen?”
“Siren has shown extreme disgust for us a long time ago, but he has never acted. Presumably the hatred has accumulated to this day, and the bottom line is touched to be so angry.” Yan Yi replied, “I have dealt with siren, and he is completely driven by Sensibility dominates actions, revenge is far greater than rationality, if he does not meet his requirements, he will permanently seal the sea area, and he will never be merciful.”
“Is it feasible if the assassination is carried out after he is brought out?” someone asked.
Yan Yi helped his forehead helplessly: “Sir, that will only make it even more out of control. Even if we succeed, we have won a short-lived victory, and after a few decades, he will still wake up from the sea and launch a frantic revenge.”
People were silent for a long time, and finally someone nodded, so the leaders of other organizations were also forced to agree, agreeing that Yan Yi would lead people to negotiate with Rimbaud.
After closing the computer, Yan Yi rubbed his face hard, and lay sleepily on the table.
A large hand rested on his back, lifted him from his office chair and put him on the sofa bed.
“You take a rest, I haven’t slept well all this time.”
Yan Yi suddenly put his arms around Lu Shangjin’s neck, and Lu Shangjin stood up in no hurry, leaned over and pressed his cheeks: “Ai Lian is being held in the International Prison, it is too far away from the final judgment, she bites the innocent Pretending to be crazy and acting stupid and not cooperating with the investigation, it is obvious that there is still a way to go, and when the forces supporting her secretly protect her temporarily, it is not impossible for her to be acquitted after many years.”
Yan Yi raised his eyelids, and a flash of joy flashed in his tired eyes: “Don’t worry, as long as it falls into Rimbaud’s hands, no one can save her.”
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Although the outside world has been in dire straits, the isolated Aphid Island has never been affected. The solidified seal has never sealed the Aphid Island Special Training Base, and the Aphid Island is still sunny.
The doctor removed a small piece of solidified sea surface seal to observe and test, and found that these seals are actually impurities mixed in seawater.
Bai Chunian once left a rule at the Aphid Island special training base, arranging two students to take turns cleaning the coastline and nearby waters every day. This habit has accumulated over many years and saved the lives of the children on the island.
There are not many students still on the island. Only some students who have not yet met the requirements of the outlying island, the experimental subjects who were taken in here, and the IOA agents who were seriously injured in the institute’s clean-up operation were ordered to recuperate here.
Lu Yan and Xiao Tun’s injuries have long since recovered, but due to the solidified sea surface, the ferry couldn’t open, and even if they were so anxious, they couldn’t cross the sea and fly back to the city.
Lu Yan could only run around the coastline every day, waiting for the shadow of a ferry.
Today, I accidentally met Yu Xiaocheng. Since the day he went to the island, the clownfish has been shutting himself up in the dormitory, and Lu Yan has never seen him.
Lu Yan carefully sat next to Yu Xiaocheng, then moved over little by little, leaning on his knees and tilting his head to look at him.
Yu Xiaocheng was fascinated by holding a stack of photos in both hands. The top one was a group photo of the students and the instructor, and the back was a group photo with Bai Chunian that he finally got, as well as a funny selfie with Huck. A hole has been dug in the sand.
Lu Yan whispered: “But buried here, it was quickly washed away by the waves.”
“Wash me away too.” Yu Xiaocheng dropped the stack of photos and leaned against Lu Yan’s shoulder.
Lu Yan raised the rabbit ears and covered Xiaocheng’s face, and his mood also dropped.
Someone stepped on the sand behind him, Lu Yan turned his head, and saw the witch and the mummy walking towards this side with two clumps of debris.
“Wenchi? What did you take?”
Witch Hazel was also a little surprised to see them, hurried over and squatted in front of them, putting the things in his arms on the beach.
They are all small bags and handicrafts woven from spider silk.
“It’s going to be sent to Rimbaud.” Witch Hazel sat down and picked up one of the small net pockets carefully woven. “Brother Chu has turned into glass beads, which are easy to get lost. It can be put in a pocket and tied to the body.”
“This package is a letter written by the bug, this package is the nougat made by Yingying himself, and this package is the sour yogurt that Rimbaud likes to eat.” Witch Hazel packed everything together, “My silk is very waterproof, Just let the underwater drone tow it, and there is an underwater base station for charging on every trip.”
“Ah ah ah, I have it too.” Lu Yan took out his mobile phone and put it into the spider silk bag without thinking, “I still have a spare. This way, Lanbo can call when he receives it. already.”
Yu Xiaocheng hesitantly stretched out the photo: “Then this… also send it to him.”
“Okay.” Witch worm packed everything with spider silk, squeezed out the air inside and sealed it. The mummy squatted to the water’s edge, put the underwater drone down, hung the spider silk package at the end, and slowly submerged into the sea .
“How long will it take to arrive?”
“It might take a month or two to get to the Caribbean.”
“Oh…long time.”
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The date for the negotiation was set in mid-August, and the negotiation place was set at Haizhong Island, where the International Prison is located.
The warden Li Zhang stood in front of the front mirror and straightened his neckline casually. Ai Lian was imprisoned in the severe prison prison under his management. Today, Yan Yi wanted to come to pick up someone, and he had to come forward to accompany him.
“Day, come in and help me tie a tie.” Li Juan opened the drawer and casually touched a dark blue tie and put it around his neck.
A few minutes later, someone pushed the door and came in. Black Panther looked indifferent and irritable, grabbed the tie that was hanging on Li Wang’s chest and tied it.
“Well… The old rabbit thought I was sloppy last time, but this time he was happy to wear a tie. I was surprised that you were obedient today.”
Black Panther didn’t say a word, and after tying his tie, he retreated to the sofa to the side, and equipped himself with a bodyguard uniform and holster.
“Don’t be too busy, I didn’t plan to take you out today.” Li Huang relaxed his neckline with satisfaction, “Rimbo is coming, he will definitely bring his precious glass ball, there are many eyes during the negotiation. Miscellaneous, the idea of someone hitting that ball is inevitable, you have to save it too obviously, and the fire may be drawn to me.”
The black panther paused with his fingertips and froze for a moment.
Li Juan slowly walked behind the black panther with his pocket in his pocket: “I’ve been stocking you, I’ll never restrict you where you want to go, and I’ll keep the door for you at any time, so you have to be interested. It’s been so long, I only ordered you to keep it safe. The cursed messenger didn’t die, but you went back and forth between the angel and the cursed messenger, sneaked into the submarine laboratory by yourself to help the messenger escape, and if I hadn’t dragged you for a while, you went a little late, I’m afraid the goddess Even if you can save the messenger, what benefits can you gain by fighting against me?”
“I’m not happy to see you proud.” Black Panther said lightly.
Li Zhang held the black umbrella with both hands, the tip of the umbrella was leaning on the ground, and turned his back to him: “It’s okay, you feel relieved. But this time you are not allowed to interfere, just stay in the room.”
The tip of the umbrella tapped on the carpet, and a black smoke ring spread out, covering the black panther’s ankle, the smoke dissipated, and the black ring disappeared.
The black panther was so violently imprisoned that he couldn’t leave the sofa even though he struggled left and right. Two jet-black panther ears stuck out from his black hair, which was aroused by mimicry.
Even so, he could only obey the commander’s orders and sit still on the sofa.
This black umbrella is the driving object “Devil’s Shade”, and the orders issued by Li Zhang were conveyed by the black umbrella to the magician Black Panther, leaving him no choice but to obey.
“Wait for me to come back.” Li Wang wanted to rub the black panther’s ears, but the black panther collapsed his ears and shrank back, and one hand broke through the confinement and pushed Li Wang’s face.
“Today is the 14th of August. I gave a little bit of the negotiation date to the eavesdropping puppet. I hope Eris won’t let me down.” Li Yan straightened up, carefully adjusted his tie, and walked out of the room leisurely.
Noon is approaching, and the blazing sunlight is pouring through the thin atmosphere directly on the hot ground. The cloudless sky suddenly darkens, and some water vapor evaporates and gathers, forming a dark cloud and covering the sky within a few seconds. .
A gust of cold wind blew and swept away the heat from the ground. The guards standing guard outside the International Prison raised their heads, wiped the sweat from their faces, and couldn’t help but be full of ecstasy: “Is it going to rain?”
The gate of the prison slowly opened, and bodyguards in uniform came out in an orderly line. The leaders of the organization participating in the negotiation came out surrounded by bodyguards, and the army’s alien radar car slowly followed to prevent the interference of dangerous experimental bodies around at any time. negotiation.
Yan Yi walked at the front, accompanied by Li Juan.
The prison guard escorted Ai Lian, who was wearing a pure black hood, to Yan Yi’s side. Yan Yi turned to lift the hood, put his fingertips on the edge of her cheek to check for traces of the mask, and confirmed the identity of the hostage in public.
In just a year, Ai Lian looked like ten years older, raised her sagging eyelids fiercely, and sneered: “Public vengeance, I thought you were a decent gentleman.”
“Personal hatred?” Yan Yi put on her hood and stood with his hands behind his back, waiting, “What do you mean by private hatred? Is it the IOA agents and students who were seriously wounded and sacrificed in defending the city?”
Near noon, the sky was changing, and the solidified sea surface seal gradually cracked.
Suddenly, a torrent broke through the sea surface, forming a towering sea tornado. Electric light flowed in the dark clouds. Blue lightning continued to climb down the sky and split the sea surface.
A huge manta ray with a whole body of blue light and a transparent body that can see the bones rushed out of the water, spread its wings nearly ten meters, and drew a shocking blue light from the air.
The transparent manta ray transformed into a humanoid body, sat on the throne, and looked down at all beings with his head down.
A mother-of-pearl oyster jumped out of the water and landed on the hydrated steel coral support, opening its huge mouth to reveal a round pearl the size of a disc inside.
Despite being thickly wrapped in nacre, the brilliance of the siren scales is still undeniable, with a faint outline emitting blue light from the inside of the pearl.
Rimbaud was worried that someone would be detrimental to Xiaobai after he left the Caribbean Sea, so he could only take it with him to feel at ease.
“I’m here. Have you brought the person I want?” Rimbaud’s voice was low and powerful, with some echoes of whale calls.
Yan Yi took a step forward and signaled that Ai Lian was by his side, but did not push the person over immediately: “Please unblock all the sea areas.”
Rimbaud curled his blond hair with his pointed long index finger: “What confidence do you have to negotiate with me?”
Lan Bo raised his eyelids slightly, the fish tail turned into slender legs, and stepped down the throne step by step on the hydrated steel stairs.
He separated the turbulent waves, and every time he took a step, a hydrated steel plane with blue currents turned under his feet.
Rimbaud passed Yan Yi, walked in front of Ai Lian, lifted her headgear, raised her chin with claws covered with cold scales, and fiddled with the prey he wanted in front of all the negotiators. Sharp fingernails slashed blood on Ellen’s face, and she lowered her head to sniff the smell of her blood.
“I won’t kill you right away.” Rimbaud caressed the side of Ellen’s ear, then grabbed the person and pushed them into the sea. The hydrated steel cage closed Ellen in a completely closed air-filled cage. In the transparent cuboid block, and slowly submerged into the deep sea.
The fear of being swallowed up by the endless abyss made Ellen instinctively bang on the outer wall for help, but to no avail, and soon disappeared completely.
“We have already handed over the people. You can fulfill your promise to unblock the sea area.”
“What if I don’t?” Rimbaud raised his eyebrows and smiled, “I am happy from the bottom of my heart to see your embarrassed appearance.”
“But it’s not only us who suffer from the separation of land and sea. If a land and sea war really breaks out, the situation of losing both sides will not be what you want. Human beings are not only living creatures on land, do you want to kill them all? Sitting on the throne, is this dereliction of duty? Woolen cloth?”
Rimbaud walked slowly back into the sea, and the cold water covered his calf.
“Sorry.” Yan Yi said sincerely, “It’s our fault that things have developed into this situation, and we will try our best to restore it.”
Rimbaud fell silent and didn’t answer anymore. At this moment, the pupils of his eyes suddenly lit up with golden lines, and the associated ability Koi Blessing sensed the timing and released it automatically. A cloth bag from nowhere floated over from the water and hit Rimbaud. legs.
Rimbaud showed contempt and irony in his eyes, but he smelled the familiar smell on the spider silk package.
He was stunned, crouched down and opened the package, which was full of small gifts with labels, cobweb pockets, handmade nougat, a few bags of sour yogurt and a pile of photos taken on Aphid Island, and a muscle-bound bag. The mobile phone of the rabbit phone case seems to have been turned off because of the long time of wandering.
Rimbaud lightly touched Xiaobai who was standing beside him in the photo, and his eyelids slowly turned red.
He was about to accept the fact that Xiao Bai had turned into glass beads to accompany him, but when he saw Xiao Bai’s vivid appearance in the photo, he clearly felt that the pain was still lingering in his chest for a long time, and he never let go.
When he was in a trance, the alien radar on the armored car suddenly alarmed, and the warning sound was repeatedly played: “The deteriorating experimental body is approaching!”
All the bodyguards immediately raised their guns, and people held their breaths and did not dare to act rashly. Suddenly, a cursed gold thread wrapped around the large pearl in the mother-of-pearl’s mouth.
At some point, an experimental body appeared on the top of the prison, and Eris sat on the edge of the platform, dangling his legs, grimacing at the corner of his mouth.
Yan Yi and Lan Bo sensed the abnormal breath at the same time, and ran towards the mother-of-pearl.
Lan Bo jumped into the sea, his legs recovered fish tails, and he shuttled back from the waves to help. Yan Yi leaped, teleported several times from the air, and got close to the white glass beads inside the mother-of-pearl protection.
“Don’t break it—!”
But it was always a step too late. The pearl slipped and fell from Yanyi’s fingertips. Rimbaud took it into his arms desperately, but the back ridge slammed into the sea. Smash the pearl on the spot.
Rimbaud’s eyes darkened, lying on the hydrated steel, ignoring the severe pain of the bone shattering, he struggled to get up and gather the scattered pearl fragments into his arms.
The Siren scales exploded from the inside of the glass ball. After losing the carrier, the blue-flashing scales automatically returned to Rimbaud.
He frantically tried to put the pearl pieces back together, but found he couldn’t.
“Don’t, don’t forget, randi, don’t let me forget you.” Rimbaud gripped a piece of debris fiercely, blood oozing from his palm, and let the pain force him not to forget Xiaobai.
Tears fell into the sea like a broken thread, Rimbaud knelt on the floating hydrated steel, crying on his back. The majesty of the king he was holding completely collapsed at this moment, and the joy of revenge was not worth mentioning in the face of great sadness.
“Ranbo, don’t cry.” Yan Yi said beside him.
When Rimbaud was about to lose his mind, he suddenly felt something warm against the back of his hand.
He lowered his head with tears in his eyes, and saw a small white plush paw resting on the back of his hand, very small.
Yan Yi couldn’t help but rolled his eyes, squatted on one knee on the hydrated steel floe, and used his fingertips to touch the head of the little lion cub, which was still pink in the white velvet.
“noob?”
The little lion cub just opened his eyes, only humming.
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Eris, who was hiding on the high spire of the prison and deliberately provoking disputes, was also stunned, and stood up all of a sudden: “What? That’s my elder brother? I’ll go and trample it to death.”
The puppet master covered his mouth and led him off the high platform: “Don’t make a sound, withdraw.”
