Meng Shuo is really unreliable.
When Ruan Mingchu and Mu Yu brought the unconscious Meng Shuo to the research institute, many researchers severely condemned the two of them.
"How could you bring Lord Meng here on a cargo cart?!"
"My goodness! How could you let Lord Meng faint!"
"Look at the clothes Lord Meng is wearing. The material is so rough, what if it chafes his skin?"
...
One person said one thing, and Ruan Mingchu and Mu Yu left the research institute on their own initiative.
Ruan Mingchu wiped non-existent sweat from his forehead. These researchers were really unbearable. It was just a mermaid, yet they treated her like royalty.
Mu Yu was truly sweating profusely; these were absolutely incredible talents. If he were petty, he could go and complain to his mother, and see if inspiration or funding was more important to him.
Of course, aside from rivals and potential rivals in love, Mu Xiaoyu is quite broad-minded.
After waiting for half an hour without seeing Meng Shuo come out, Ruan Mingchu and Mu Yu simply stopped waiting and took a hovercar to wander around the neighborhood.
When Meng Shuo woke up, her mind was blank, and she lay quietly for a few minutes before she recovered.
The spirit pearl he consumed did indeed heal Meng Shuo's injuries and restore his memories, but Meng Shuo, having regained his memories, wanted to go back in time and strangle his former self.
Damn it, swallowing the spirit pearl stained with Ruan Mingchu's blood is tantamount to voluntarily acknowledging him as its master.
Meng Shuo was once a prodigy, but now he actually acknowledges a mixed-race person as his master. Although this mixed-race person's bloodline level is king, it still makes Meng Shuo feel as uncomfortable as if he has swallowed a fly.
After much thought, Meng Shuo decided to keep the matter a secret for now, since Ruan Mingchu was also of mixed race and knew nothing about the Spirit Pearl.
Meng Shuo only had a superficial understanding of the matter of the Spirit Pearl recognizing its master, otherwise he wouldn't have this idea now.
After receiving compliments and flattery from the researchers at the institute, Meng Shuo's mood finally improved.
He had a researcher send a message to Mu Yu, asking them to come pick him up.
The researcher reluctantly sent the message, inwardly cursing Ruan Mingchu and Mu Yu.
The researcher's message was like an order, delivered in a very impolite tone, which made Mu Yu so angry that he almost smashed the terminal.
Ruan Mingchu ruffled his fur, "Don't be angry, don't be angry. Throw Tu Aotian to him and let Tu Aotian make him angry to death."
Mu Yu subconsciously rubbed the hand covering his head, then realized that the action was not cool. He pretended that nothing had happened and agreed to Ruan Mingchu's suggestion.
"When we get back, I'll tell Xiaotian that Mengshuo has been secretly talking badly about him."
Anyway, this is the truth, and there is no slander involved.
However, before Tu Aotian could avenge Mu Yu, Meng Shuo's body involuntarily knelt down before Ruan Mingchu and Mu Yu the moment he saw them. To be precise, he knelt down before Ruan Mingchu.
He knelt down on both knees, and the sound of him landing was quite loud.
At this moment, everyone present was completely bewildered.
When Meng Shuo tried to get up, he found himself with a huge mountain pressing down on him, preventing him from getting up.
The only person present who could have done this was Nguyen Minh Thu.
Meng Shuo gritted her teeth: "Ruan Mingchu, what have I done to offend you?"
Although Ruan Mingchu did not understand what had happened, he could tell from Meng Shuo's attitude that the root of the problem lay with him.
“You haven’t offended me,” Ruan Mingchu said with a smile. “I haven’t done anything.”
I'm just not in a great mood.
Ruan Mingchu keenly observed that the worse his mood was, or more precisely, the stronger his negative emotions towards Meng Shuo were, the more distressed Meng Shuo appeared.
What's the underlying principle? Perhaps it's related to the bead containing his blood.
Ruan Mingchu had a delusion that he could control Meng Shuo's life.
Mermaids are truly amazing creatures.
Meng Shuo felt as if an invisible hand was gripping his neck, making it increasingly difficult for him to breathe. He even felt as if the whole world was rejecting him and trying to destroy him.
He apologized to Mu Yu with difficulty. He had seen the message the researcher sent, and it was disgusting from any angle, but instead of stopping him, he gave the person an encouraging look.
He shouldn't have done that.
If we're talking about being completely bewildered, Mu Yu is the most bewildered of all.
He didn't know why Meng Shuo knelt down right away, nor did he have that strange feeling or guess like Ruan Mingchu. Now Meng Shuo apologized to him out of the blue, which made him even more confused.
However, Mu Xiaoyu was incredibly magnanimous and had already calmed down. When Meng Shuo wanted to apologize, he simply said "It's okay."
Mu Yu wasn't angry, and Ruan Mingchu was naturally too lazy to get angry at a mermaid. Meng Shuo felt like she had finally come back to life.
I hate my past self even more. Damn it, I completely surrendered myself to a mixed-race person!
In the room specially prepared for Meng Shuo, soft sofas were placed on both sides of the coffee table. Ruan Mingchu and Mu Yu sat on one side, and Meng Shuo sat opposite them.
Ruan Mingchu cut straight to the point: "Regarding my health, I hope you can give me a satisfactory explanation."
Meng Shuo hadn't originally planned to reveal everything; those not of his kind were bound to have different intentions, and Ruan Mingchu, being a half-blood, wasn't a mermaid. But now, in this situation, his life and fortune were entirely in Ruan Mingchu's hands, and it was all his own doing.
Unless he cracks this thing someday, he'll have to honestly think of Ruan Mingchu's best interests and listen to him.
Meng Shuo took a minute to organize his thoughts.
"In mermaids, this usually happens when they suffer a fatal injury. The protection of their elders can play a protective role, offsetting most of the damage, but some of it directly affects their body. The body's self-protection mechanism is activated, which reduces the body's energy consumption and restores it to its juvenile state."
"Hmm... I've seen them all turn into mermaid eggs, and once they recover, they emerge from the egg and return to normal. The one who's stuck halfway through is probably because of impure blood."
"It may recover on its own over time, or it may remain in this state for life."
Ruan Mingchu tapped on the table: "I need a solution."
Meng Shuo licked his lips, and after a struggle, he finally told everyone he knew.
"The holy spring in the Mermaid Temple can remove all negative statuses. You should be able to recover as long as you drink from the holy spring."
"The only way to get to the Mermaid World is through a wormhole. There is a specific wormhole that connects the two worlds, but it is unpredictable and its exact location and time of appearance are uncertain."
Ruan Minhchu asked, "What are the characteristics of a wormhole?"
“I’ll draw it for you in a bit and you’ll understand,” Meng Shuo said.
Ruan Mingchu nodded.
Ruan Mingchu was satisfied with Meng Shuo's answer to the question about his own body. As for anything else, such as what the Holy Spring was or how to obtain it, he was too lazy to ask.
To put it bluntly, Ruan Mingchu still didn't trust Meng Shuo.
Mu Yu, who had witnessed the entire conversation between the two, was completely bewildered, with question marks constantly popping into his mind: what exactly were Ruan Mingchu and Meng Shuo talking about?
Last time, Mu Yu deliberately avoided the conversation, but this time he forgot about it. Ruan Mingchu didn't say he couldn't listen, so Mu Yu stayed.
The result was that I didn't understand anything.
A normal person would definitely ask, right? But Mu Xiaoyu didn't. He wanted to wait for Ruan Mingchu to take the initiative to ask, believing that this was the respect that should be given.
How could Ruan Mingchu, who assumed Mu Yu already knew, possibly go out of his way to explain it to him again?
There is no solution to this problem, but everything will be resolved when Ruan Mingchu recovers.
Ruan Mingchu's matter has nothing to do with Meng Shuo anymore; those who arrested Meng Shuo are still waiting for him to identify them.
Marshal Mu made a phone call, summoning Meng Shuo, Mu Yu, and Ruan Mingchu.
He first spoke with Meng Shuo alone, and then called Ruan Mingchu and Mu Yu in.
Mu Bing nodded to Ruan Mingchu as a greeting.
His relationship with Mu Yu didn't feel like that of a father and son; it was more like that of a superior and subordinate with a strained relationship. Their questions and answers were stiff and formulaic.
It seems that Mu Yu always calls his father Marshal Mu. What kind of son always addresses his father like that?
I heard that Marshal Mu and his wife had a bad relationship and divorced. Is that the reason?
Ruan Mingchu decided to go back and learn more when he had time.
Mu Yu exchanged a few words with Marshal Mu, and then proceeded with the task of investigating the mermaids.
After a few seconds of hesitation, Marshal Mu finally said, "Take a leave of absence from the school and don't go back for a while."
After saying that, he looked at Ruan Mingchu and said, "You too, try to spend as much time as possible with Mu Yu lately."
His voice and expression were calm, without a trace of agitation, yet they gave Ruan Mingchu a sense that a storm was brewing.
Ruan Mingchu nodded. In any case, he was going to investigate these things thoroughly, including everything on the Imperial Star, and clean it up completely.
The Mu family is a powerful local force in the Shuangjiu Galaxy, so investigating together with Mu Yu will definitely make things much easier in some aspects.
According to Meng Shuo, he accidentally fell into a spatial turbulence and was fortunate enough to enter a wormhole connecting two worlds, thus arriving here.
When he first arrived, he was unconscious due to injuries sustained from the spatial turbulence and was taken in by someone. When he woke up, he was already in a fish tank. He wasn't fully conscious at the time, but now, recalling it, he seems to have seen other mermaids.
The people who initially cared for him wore white coats and spoke a language the fish couldn't understand. After an unknown amount of time, he was moved to the auction house's storeroom.
Meng Shuo drew portraits of everyone he could remember.
"I can't guarantee it's 100% accurate, but it should be very close."
A stack of portraits became the initial materials for the investigation.
When Hao Youyou took him to the night market, Ruan Mingchu felt that the spaceship was too arrogant. Now, after asking Mu Yu, he learned that the owner of the spaceship was indeed related to several deeply rooted old families in the Shuangjiu Star System.
If this relatively young star system is like this, one can only imagine how numerous the people in the central star system, whose empires have existed since their inception, disregard the law and rely on their power.
Upon boarding the spaceship again, Ruan Mingchu and Mu Yu walked side by side, instead of their unexpected encounter as before.
Almost as they approached this place, Mu Yu remembered the time Ruan Mingchu had asked him to borrow pheromones. He mainly recalled the strange feeling he had back then—embarrassed yet with a hint of anticipation?
Mu Yu shook his head. Had he really been looking forward to it?
With his sudden movement, his head and shoulders moved, throwing Rabbit Aotian off his shoulder. Rabbit Aotian was going to break up with Mu Yu again...
When it started making noise, Mu Yu's mind went completely blank. He couldn't think of anything else and just wanted it to quiet down.
Although Rabbit Aotian was noisy, at least it only made noise in Mu Yu's head and didn't do anything as outrageous as a rabbit speaking human language.
But Mu Yu's combination of a white rabbit and a gold rabbit was really eye-catching; almost everyone who walked with him would glance at him.
That's the perfect thing to do to attract attention.
The ground floor of the spaceship is where guests are entertained, and exhibitions, sales, and auctions are held here. The first floor is a restaurant, and the second floor is a bedroom.