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Chaxianyu stood up slowly with the kitten in her arms, her pitch black eyes staring unblinkingly at the mermaid who suggested the trade. Just as she was thinking about the meaning of those words, a broom that was stopped beside her suddenly flew over as she shouted in dissatisfaction, Who cares about your life? Let me tell you, the most valuable thing in your body right now is your tears! If you can't cry anymore, the Guild Leader will lock you up here for the rest of your life...

I'm going to save him. Chaxianyu thought for a moment, then walked towards the mermaid with a serious face. As she walked, she continued to say: I don't want your life, and I also don't want your tears, but first, you have to tell me what happened here.

The broom was suddenly cut off by Chaxianyu, causing him to be dumbstruck.

Broom head, don't forget, I was drowning just now. If it wasn't for this big sister mermaid making a move, Cat and I would've been done for long ago. Chaxianyu reminded her softly. I don't think she is a bad person, there must be a reason for this matter.

Finished speaking, Chaxianyu smiled at the Mermaid, and gently nodded her head, you must have something that you want to pass to me right?

The mermaid who had been observing Chaxianyu's conversation with the broom suddenly retreated a few steps upon hearing this.

She lowered her head. Her long black hair that was like silk covered half her face, so her expression could not be seen. Only her dark hair floated slightly in the pool.

We come from the Qiong Hai at the southernmost point of the Hong Huang Kingdom, and we are the legendary life forms, the "mermen". The people of the Southern Wilderness all call us "mermen fish".

My brother, Fu Feng, was left behind by a large group of hunters due to his greed. To save my brother, I was chased all the way here along the Great River, from the southernmost point to the northernmost point. The dry climate and the scarcity of water had weakened me to the point where I passed out on the shore.

When he woke up, he found that he had also been caught in the circus. He had an electric current collar around his neck to control his movements, and he was being held at the lowest level of the circus. Only when I was performing, I would be loaded into a water tank and shipped out. The mermaid named Fu Yao seemed to be narrating the story of someone else, as she narrated it calmly. However, Chaxianyu was still able to see that she was hiding in the pond, her pale knuckles digging deep into the flesh.

At first, I struggled, resisted, and furiously attacked those people who were supposed to have paid a huge price to come to the circus to watch me, and then I was quickly subdued. As long as I didn't listen and didn't want to perform, all that awaited me was the violence, the whipping, the electric shock, and even the fatal water loss. Fu Yao's voice began to tremble slightly, and Chaxianyu's heart clenched tightly as well. The kitten in his embrace seemed to have felt the heavy atmosphere, as it stomped its legs and burrowed into her embrace.

Until one day I found Windward in this circus.

After saying that, Fu Yao suddenly raised her head, her beautiful eyes were unfocused and empty, she wanted to grab onto Chaxianyu's face, but her eyes were unfocused, her lips were trembling and her entire body was trembling, do you know what I'm seeing? He was nailed to a wooden board, unable to move. Her fish tail had been cut open, and someone was eating his meat with a knife and fork. Blood flowed down along the scales, but she was still crazily eating. His mouth was taped, and a few naked burly men were sitting on him, venting their lust.

The young girl bit her lower lip so hard that she wanted to bite a hole in it, but she still couldn't stand steadily — she really hoped that she had heard wrong, but Fu Yao's expression was so sorrowful, her face was ashen, and the pain pierced her heart. She didn't even dare to imagine that heart-breaking scene.

Then I went crazy.

Fu Yao returned to being expressionless. She self-deprecatingly lowered her eyes and calmly spoke, witnessing the miserable state of her biological brother being played by humans in my palms. I was heartbroken, not eating or drinking, and spent the entire day washing my face with tears. The Captain, who was watching me, was stunned. In order to gather more pearls, he ordered me to be carried every night to the back of a glass door.

Glass... Door? Chaxianyu suddenly had a bad premonition.

A pearl from a mermaid's tear is worth ten thousand taels of gold, which is much easier than the money I earn by forcing myself to go out and perform. Fu Yao sneered, turned her face away, drooped her eyelashes, and stared blankly at the lake full of black water.

In order to make me cry, the scene of Windraiser being pressed down by a man every night, forcefully interacting with him, has happened countless times. I don't know how many times I have witnessed it myself.

At first, I really could not help it, banging on the glass crying, tears into beads, was picked up one by one. Later, I forced myself to hold back my tears. Even though Windraiser was being tortured in front of my eyes, I bit my tongue and broke my nails to prevent them from succeeding, but I didn't shed a single tear.

Fu Yao... Chaxianyu's eyes were red, she could not say a word, and the broom also remained silent at the side.

Since Windraiser's pain couldn't make me cry, it tortured me physically. I was tortured, scales were removed, my lungs were pierced, and every day I was immersed in a trash pond. The stench made it difficult for me to breathe, and garbage stopped me from swimming … Not only that, they also made a rule that I mustn't be hurt. Because I had to go out to perform, my long hair covered my back with scars.

Fu Yao turned around, and with her back facing Chaxianyu, she gently lifted his long hair. Chaxianyu sucked in a breath of cold air. The suppurating wound and the hair stuck together. The black and purple scars were densely packed, and blood continuously seeped out from the unhealed parts of the wound … So it turned out that even at this very moment when she was talking to her, Fu Yao was still enduring great pain.

The Mermaid's recovery abilities are limited, and my body has more and more new wounds, so the healing speed is getting slower and slower … Finally, one day, I was so weak that not only could I not cry, I could not even perform normally. The circus was afraid that I would die, so they gave me all kinds of game, hoping that I could heal myself faster.

Chaxianyu tilted her head to look at the broom, so... I was caught and brought in?

Fu Yao laughed bitterly, her face turning pale white. The main food for the mermaids was the fishes at the bottom of the sea, if they accidentally ate the terrestrial creatures, they would easily become bloodthirsty and cruel. In order not to lose my mind, I did not once touch the food they had brought me, but even if I did not eat it, the birds and beasts would not be able to escape, and they would all starve to death in the cave.

Then, then just what was that kitten you wanted to eat …? Chaxianyu recalled the first time she saw her. Fu Yao had bared her fangs, which made her eyes look pitch black.

Fu Yao was silent.

After a long moment, her shoulders trembled. I'm sorry, I really … Too hungry.

Before I attacked the kitten, I ate people.

Chaxianyu's heart thumped! With a violent slap, her eyes widened.

The first time, after they killed a person, they peeled the meat off and cut it into pieces. They pretended to be fish and sent it into the cave to trick me into eating. I was already on my last breath and couldn't think much about it … In a moment of confusion, disbelief and doubt, she naively thought that in order to prevent me from dying, they had made a compromise and delivered real fish … It was too late when he realized that something was wrong. The taboo of mermaids was that they could not prey on humans.

Once it tasted human flesh, it would go insane. Day and night, it would pursue the taste of human flesh, unable to eat anything else, much less recover to its original state.

Chaxianyu's face paled. Fu Yao, you're saying that before I came here, you had already eaten quite a few humans …

Fu Yao lowered her head, her eyes flashing. In the end, she gritted her teeth and said hoarsely, "Sorry."

The broom that had been silent all this time suddenly opened its mouth. However, the captain was right – once the mermaid eats human flesh, it will speed up its recovery and only need a night's time to recover. When I saw you in the movie a few days ago, I didn't see a single wound on your back.

I heard from the mountain ghost that he didn't need to go and capture people every day if you had to resist the urge to eat them up, which would save him a lot of trouble. But there were times when he would lose control, right? The feeling of being hungry isn't very pleasant, so you ate quite a lot of humans off and on, right?

On this trip to the Sleeping State, the Guild Leader was very concerned about public performances. If you didn't eat people, your wounds wouldn't be able to heal before the show started, so the mountain ghost was ordered to go out to look for bait. After Fu Yao heard the broom's words, she did not say anything further. She buried her face deep in her hair, as if she was regretting the crime she had committed.

Chaxianyu hugged Miaomiao's whimpering little kitten tightly, his expression became heavy, and his emotions fluctuated severely. He was hesitating whether he should keep his promise and save her little brother, who was imprisoned somewhere in the circus.

But after all, she had eaten someone …

Silly girl, if you still want to save her little brother, then I'll accompany you.

Chaxianyu was shocked, raising her head, only to see the broom already turning, flying slowly towards the iron gate, a voice came from the sky, she eats all your brethren, it is truly hateful, but don't forget, humans captured her family first, making things difficult for her, forcing her to beg for life but not death, thus resulting in her ending up like this.

The broom stopped in front of the iron gate. The slender body of the broom was hidden in the shadows. The broom was not bamboo and was completely cold.

It changed its teasing tone and said flatly, "Are you going or not?" I know this circus better than you do.