Chapter 38：

port.

On the mainland, everyone is busy trying to survive.

However, even in the last days, when most people are distressed about whether they can have a bite to eat tomorrow, there are always a group of people who claim to be standing at the top and spend a lot of time with very few resources.

Therefore, business is particularly good in the black market of the port.

In the depths of the black market, the most famous one is the auction house inside.

It is said that everything in the auction house can be bought and sold, even the things that are prohibited in the "Civilization Convention" can be bought and sold.

As long as you can afford it.

But now, the auction house is bustling with hustle and bustle, and a figure is standing in front of a transparent box underneath the auction house.

This man leaned on a cane and put one hand on the transparent special box. He watched the sleeping white mermaid in the box for a moment, showing an obsessive expression:

"He is so beautiful, isn't he?"

He wiped the cold sweat on his forehead, lowered his head, not daring to look at the man's face, but only agreed:

"Yes it is."

The man with a cane is the owner of the black market. No one knows who he is, but it is undeniable that he created the black market with one hand. He is the most powerful person here. Everyone respectfully calls him "Earl Vale".

It's funny, isn't it?

In the doomsday, the so-called royal families of various countries have long been abandoned by their people, but this person stubbornly believes in his blood, and because of his blond hair and blue eyes, he proclaims himself a "Earl".

"He is really as beautiful as in the fairy tale."

Count Vail sighed, his eyes were affectionate when he looked at the white mermaid.

Then he retracted his gaze and looked at his underlings. His blue eyes were instantly as cold as ice ridges in the cold winter:

"How about the loss?"

The sweat on his forehead is more:

"Three boats were lost, and there were a lot of casualties. Only ten people returned alive. Three of them were seriously injured and had severe internal bleeding. They might not be saved."

This mermaid was almost captured with human life.

Hearing about such a serious loss, Earl Vale was not at all angry. On the contrary, he was very happy. He clapped his cane and laughed:

"Really? It's really great. It turns out that my mermaid is so powerful, and it's really a perfect creature."

Mu Qiang is a common point in the doomsday. Compared with the delicate daughter of the sea, which is like a bubble, Earl Ville prefers ferociousness.

Animal-like creatures.

Conquer them, there will be a different kind of pleasure.

"Then, over there in the laboratory?"

Asked weakly.

The sweat on his forehead had already flowed into his eyes, but he did not dare to wipe it at all.

"what are you saying?"

Earl Weil smiled, "We just caught a small white fish, why should we tell the laboratory?"

The subordinate shivered, and did not dare to speak.

Count Vail turned his head, he fixedly looked at the white mermaid in the box, and couldn't help sighing again:

"It's so beautiful."

As far as he knew, the white mermaid in front of him was ferocious when awake, and its speed and ferocity were comparable to that of a small shark.

In addition to having sharp teeth and claws, this mermaid seems to be able to secrete venom and make sound waves to shatter human internal organs.

If it weren't for the mermaid who wasn't familiar with the newly developed black-tech hunting net at first, they ran into it. They wanted to catch this mermaid, fearing that they were daydreaming.

"You really cost me a lot."

Even knowing that the white mermaid is still in a coma and can’t hear anything, Earl Wil’s still stood outside the box and complained to the mermaid inside.

"You said, how much money do I have to sell you to make up for my loss?"

Merchants are always merchants, and for such a small benefit, they can worry about nothing.

Earl Vale is the leader of the black market and a shrewd businessman.

He likes his products, and what he expresses is to sell the products he likes at a higher price.

Only in this way can the value of the commodity be realized, right?

...

Lance woke up.

"Yi——"

Lance swam forward in a daze, only to hit a transparent wall.

He slapped his webbed claws on the transparent wall, only then did he realize something in a daze--

He was caught.

At the moment before fainting, Lance knew that he had been captured by human beings. Apart from despair, it was more sad.

He didn't know what would happen to Wencer, he broke his promise to Wencer...Will Wencer be caught by humans in the future?

Sure enough, no matter whether it is in a fairy tale or in the real world, nothing good happens when the mermaid reaches the sea.

I don’t know whether it’s the psychological effect or the effect of anesthetics remaining in the body. Lance felt that his body and soul were separated, and all the senses seemed to be covered with a thick white film, slow to respond, and feel like sleepwalking. , Even attention

Unable to focus.

Lance leaned against the transparent wall for a long time, only when his thoughts drifting away found the focus, and finally focused his attention and began to think about what is going on with him now.

Lance opened his eyes with all his energy, only to find that he was locked in a huge glass box, and he was leaning against a glass wall.

There are lights at the bottom of the glass box, so the inside is very bright, and everything can be seen clearly.

Lance looked away from his fishtail. He looked into the distance and wanted to see where he was through the glass. When he looked up, he saw a man with a cane standing in front of the glass box, smiling. Look at him.

Lance was frightened by the man and coughed a few times and let out a few small bubbles.

I don't know how long the man looked in front of the glass box.

With the eyesight of the mermaid, Lance passed the man directly, and he could clearly see that the place he was in should be a basement or warehouse.

The space here is very empty and dark, and the only light source is the glass box where I am, and a lamp above my head.

There is only one door that should be an entry and exit in the distance, and there are two strong men standing at the door, and there is no possibility of escape at all.

Lance thought about the escape route drowsily, and even forgot that he was a personal fish and had no legs. He thought he was a human being, and he could jump out of this strange glass box and escape into the distance.

He doesn't even have the strength to swing his tail and stand up, so he can only lean against the glass weakly, looking at the people outside in confusion and dazed.

"Hello there."

The blond man with a cane knocked on the glass box and asked, "Beautiful little fish, can you understand me?"

Lance rolled his eyes at the man angrily, and said nothing.

For Lance's non-violent non-cooperation, the blond man was not at all angry, he "chuckled" a few times and didn't care.

In fact, based on some of Lance's actions when he woke up, coupled with his current reaction, he had guessed that the mermaid in front of him had a much higher IQ than he thought, and he might even understand human words.

As an experienced businessman, he can tell the difference.

After laughing enough, the blond man put his hand on the glass and introduced himself affectionately to Lance:

"You can call me ‘Earl Val’, I’m the master here."

Lance tilted his head in doubt, and made a soft voice:

"Ka——"

"This is the auction house."

Earl Vale looked at him intently, as if

Look at his most beautiful lover, but what he says is cruel and terrible,

"I will sell you, and I believe you, you can definitely sell at sky-high prices."

Lance:? ? ? ?

In Lance's shocked expression, Earl Vale became more and more happy. His originally handsome facial features were so excited that he was distorted. It took a few seconds before he tried to control his facial features and returned to the calm and elegant man at the beginning.

He sighed:

"You really understand what I said."

"..."

Lance didn't know how he should react.

Should I say that there is no business but no evil?

"Ah, it's a wonderful creature, it really deserves to be studied."

Earl Weil sighed.

the study? What research?

A scene suddenly popped out of Lance's mind--

He was tied to the operating table by Wuhua University, surrounded by white coats. These white coats had a scalpel in their hands, thinking about where to draw the best.

Ok.

Damn it, maybe he is going to be sent to the research institute to get rid of it!

"What is Xiaoyu thinking?"

The horror that Lance showed was seen by Earl Well, he smiled and calmed down, "I won't hurt you."

Who believes it, Lance's face turned black.

If it weren't for his body still numb, he would definitely find a way to break the glass and give this person a bite.

"Don't think about breaking the glass."

Count Vail gave a chuckle under Lance's glaring. He knocked on the glass box with his cane, "This is made of bulletproof glass, the kind that can't be broken by a bullet."

Lance ignored him.

But I can't help muttering in my heart, does this man have mind-reading skills? Why is he wondering what the person on the other side can know? It was as if he could communicate with that man without barriers.

Thinking about this question, Lance looked away from the man and tried to play stupid.

According to the man's thinking, a mermaid with a high IQ would definitely be more valuable than a low IQ. He is not stupid, and there is no need to respond to that man and put himself in more danger.

Seeing the white mermaid ignored him, Earl Vale was not angry. He still faced Lance and said:

"Well, I think it's better to tell you the next thing."

Lance moved his tail.

"That's it. Although I am an auction house, I am also responsible for after-sales service. So, you will have a minor operation later."

Earl Vail continued to smile, smiling on the face, but in fact he said the cruelest

if,

"This small operation will make you harmless and a little painful, but don't struggle."

Lance turned his head back in an instant, and he was immediately anxious.

Yes, even if humans catch a cat, they will cut off the cat’s nails in order to prevent it from being scratched by the cat. If it is placed on him, the sharp claws and fangs will naturally be removed.

"Ya——yi——"

Lance couldn't help it, he screamed frantically toward the glass box, trying to smash the glass with sound waves.

But I don't know what the glass is made of. Under Lance's frantic neighing, the glass installed in the entire glass box vibrates crazily, and even the water inside begins to boil, but the entire glass box is undamaged.

Lance was dumbfounded, he was lying on the bottom of the water, at a loss.

"Oh, it's really scary."

Earl Vail waited for Lance's neighing to finish. He knocked on the glass wall with his cane. His blue eyes were unfathomable. "Fortunately, I gave you anesthetic before and installed this high-strength glass."

After sighing this, Earl Well did something on the top of the box, only to hear a soft "click", Lance looked up and saw a small hole exposed at the top of the glass box.

Then something like an injection head was inserted into the water where Lance was, and a blue liquid was slowly released from the injection head.

The taste of the water began to become bitter, and the mermaid's keen sense told Lance that the injection head inserted was releasing a drug, but he had nowhere to escape——

His senses became dull again, and just before Lance fell unconscious, he struggled to look at Earl Weir who was standing outside.

I saw Earl Vail greeted the two strong men standing in the distance and lifted the glass box, while he himself walked aside, limped with a cane.

...

"Heartbeat...too fast..."

"Oh my god... this is... this..."

"Pacemaker...dead..."

...

When Lance regained consciousness, it was already a few hours later.

He was in a glass box much larger than before, and the top part was almost close to the ceiling, making it look like the entire wall was his fish tank.

After the effect of the medicine on his body, Lance found that the part of his throat was particularly painful, and his mouth was full of blood. He could only make a slight noise now, and the sharp nails on his hands were also cut off.

Fortunately, the mermaid has a strong self-healing ability, and the wound on its body has turned into pink tender flesh, and it seems that it will not even leave a scar.

The operation just now directly dismantled all Lance's weapons that could harm humans.

Sharp teeth, nails, voice throat, and poison sac hidden in the body.

After Lance woke up, his body was still slow due to the anesthetic. He slowly turned his head to see where he was. Only then did he realize that he was not in the dim place at the beginning. He was in a room. inside.

Lamps, sofas, curtains, and the glass box he was on was directly opposite to a balcony. Outside the balcony was a clear sky and the sound of waves.

The sea?

Lance couldn't help but cocked his tail and looked eagerly at the balcony.

Since he is so close to the balcony, does this mean that he can come out of this glass box, "break out" again, roll down from the balcony, and enter the sea again?

Really, why after becoming a mermaid, always thinking about "jailbreak"?

Lance looked at the sea outside. The more he thought about it, the more angry he became. He had nowhere to vent. He directly used his short nails to scratch the glass box that held him in front of him again and again, making harsh scratches. sound.

"Little fish awake?"

The blond man who claimed to be the Earl of Vail walked in. This time, he was only wearing a simple bathrobe and holding a bag with all kinds of silver fish in it.

As soon as I entered, I saw Lance scratching the wall, and the blond man showed a doting expression:

"Don't scratch, be careful, don't split your nails."

Lance was directly in the water and rolled his eyes at the blond man.

The author has something to say: Regarding the previous chapter, let’s take a look at popular science:

Like a killer whale (although it is called a whale, it is not a whale). If a large whale is stranded, ordinary humans can only do two things:

One is to find a way to use large tools to hoist the stranded killer whale or whale, and then put it back into the sea.

This kind of large whales cannot be pushed on the beach. First, humans do not have this strength. Secondly, due to the tonnage, they will suffer secondary damage and their belly will be worn out.

The second is to think of a way to moisturize them, cover them with soaked clothing, shower them with water, etc., and then help send the whales back after the tide rises.