The Mermaid of the Deep Sea

Chapter 3

Although Ivory said that he would go to see the Derby with Lei Boting, he was finally coaxed by Lei Boting to leave with Ralph.

After Ralph and Ivor left, Lei Boding decided to fix his stomach and then go to visit the rumored strange and timid Mr. Mermaid.

Maybe it's because he has become a mermaid, so when Lei Boding gnawed the fresh fish brought by Ivor with his teeth, he didn't have any obstacles in his mind. He even felt that the fish was firm and chewy, with A faint sweet taste, really good taste.

Ivor and the others brought four fish, and Lei Boding felt full after eating two and a half.After rubbing his stomach, which was half soft skin and half fish scales, Lei Boting put down half of the fish, and then went out with a whole fish and wandered around somewhere before walking towards Derby's house. .

Judging from the conversation between Ivor and Raffle and what Leiberdin has seen now, the entire mermaid family lives in a specific location in the deep sea, and all the mermaids use reefs to carve out houses to live in.The strange thing about this place is that the place where the mermaids live seems to be covered by an invisible large transparent cover. Although there is water, the fish outside the cover cannot swim in, but the mermaids can swim out. The cover is used to prey on fish, which ensures that the mermaids will not be attacked and hurt by fierce fish such as sharks within a certain range.

The place where mermaids live is quite big, but like the place where human society lives, there are lively and deserted places. The area around the patriarch is relatively lively, and the more it spreads out, the more deserted it is. Mermaids like to live in groups. Therefore, everyone tries to live together as much as possible. Only those mermaids who are relatively withdrawn or have other reasons that are hard to explain will choose to live alone.

Lei Boting felt that this was like the difference between the city center and the suburbs. As for Derby's house, it naturally belonged to a remote place, and it was already on the edge of the invisible big hood.In today's words, if the place where the patriarch lives is within the first ring road, Derby is more than five ring roads away from their house.As for Lei Boding's house, it's not bad, it's within the third ring road.

Holding the map of Derby's address drawn by Ive on the seaweed, Lei Boding walked around for a long time and finally saw the lonely small house standing on the reef.If it was on land with flowers, grass and streams, it would still be a paradise, but in this cold deep sea, no matter how you look at it, the small house brings a sense of desolation and desolation.

Lei Boting stood still not far from the small house, organized what to say when he saw the mermaid later, coughed lightly, moistened his throat, and knocked on the door, "Excuse me, is Derby there?"

The answer to Lei Boding was the sound of something bumping into the room, followed by boundless silence. Such a response made Lei Boting pause, and then continued to knock on the door, "Is Derby there?"

It is still quiet.

Knock again, it is still quiet, as if there is no one in the house.

Lei Boding raised his eyebrows, and seemed to be talking to himself, "Since I'm not here, I'd better leave." Then he turned and left with his tail wagging.

While swimming, Lei Boding counted silently in his heart. When he counted to ten, he turned around with a whizzing sound and rushed back to the door of Derby's house. There was another sound of objects colliding in the house. , this time, Lei Boding's tone brought a smile, "Hey, buddy, don't hide, I saw your tail."

After Lei Boting said this, the room was quiet again, and Lei Boting was not angry, and continued to wait. After a while, the stone door finally opened slowly, and what greeted him was a blond haired blue-scaled The mermaid looked at Lei Boding with eyes as blue and moist as sea water with some helplessness.

Seeing the mermaid appearing in front of him, Lei Boding whistled in his heart, oh, beautiful boy, oh, no, it should be a mermaid, even those supermodels who want to make a fashion blockbuster are not enough to look at.

Perhaps it was because Lei Boding's eyes were too obvious, the blond-haired mermaid moved back a little bit uncomfortably, put his hands behind his back and lowered his head slightly and asked softly, "Excuse me, what can I do?"

Looking at the mermaid who was as timid as a little rabbit in front of him, Lei Boding finally restrained his ruffian air and put on a serious expression, "Derby, I'm here to thank you."

"No, it's nothing." Hearing Lei Boding's words, the somewhat slender mermaid named Derby flinched, retracted her hands, and said in a low voice.

Sure enough, he was also in the forbidden area at that time—this was Lei Boding's first reaction after hearing Derby's answer. A memory or a dream was so vague that Lei Boting didn't dare to guarantee it, but this innocent little guy came out just by cheating.

Lei Boting tried his best not to draw the corners of his mouth too clearly. He looked down at the blond boy who wanted to shrink his head so that he could not see him, and said softly, "Of course it is very important. Without you, I would definitely die in the forbidden area. You saved my life, thank you, Derby."

Perhaps because he never thought that the famous "bad boy" Reboutine would talk to him like this, Derby raised his head and gave him a quick glance, then lowered his head again, patting the ground uncomfortably with his tail a few times, 嚅He said, "I won't tell others that you went to the forbidden area, you go back."

Looking at Derby who lowered his head but exuded the aura of 'go away and disappear before my eyes' all over his body, Lei Boding almost wanted to laugh out loud, he coughed lightly to stabilize his emotions, and said, "I Of course I know you won't say it, but after all, you saved my life, and I'm really grateful to you." He said and took out the things he brought, "This is my thank you gift."

Derby was taken aback by the hand that was suddenly stretched out in front of him, but he forgot to be afraid for a while after seeing clearly what he was holding in his hand, but looked up at Lei Boding with a subtle expression, "This fish..."

cough!This time Lei Boding coughed again, but not to control his smile, but because of embarrassment, he showed a rare look of embarrassment, looked in other directions and explained, "That...the hand was injured, so... ...so the fish caught are..."

Lei Boding didn't say the whole thing, but Derby understood what he meant, and nodded seriously, "Yes, your hand was injured, is your hand better now?"

Seeing that the topic of Derby no longer revolved around the fish, Lei Boding heaved a sigh of relief, nodded hurriedly and said, "It's much better, it's much better." Looking at the appearance of the few fish that Derby caught by himself is simply horrible, being caught by Lei Boding's hands looks like a murder scene, I am so sorry for the audience.This can only be blamed on Lei Boding's lack of proficiency in this technique, and now he can only use the wound as an excuse.

Speaking of the wound, Lei Boting suddenly remembered that Derby was also injured in his memory, so he leaned forward and asked with concern, "How is your wound? Are you okay?"

After saying this, Lei Boting immediately realized that the atmosphere was not right. Derby shrank back the hands that had been behind his back again, and returned to the stiff look of the first meeting, "Okay, okay," said Wan quickly stretched out a hand to take the fish from Lei Boding's hand, and then pushed him to the door before he could react, "Thank you for the fish, you are injured, go home and rest quickly Go." In the end, Lei Boting didn't recover from the re-closed door for a long time.

Later, Lei Boding never opened the door no matter how he called Derby, so Lei Boting could only leave with his head full of question marks.

As he was approaching his home, Rabden ran into Ivor and Raffle.

"Hey, buddy, where did you go, and let us go to your house for nothing." Ivor was the first to swim over, and he stepped forward and slapped Lei Boding on the shoulder, and asked carelessly .

"Me?" Lei Boding came back to his senses, looked up at Ivor and Raffle, and pointed to himself, "I'm going to see the Derby."

"Wow," the answer made Ivor's eyes widen, and Ralph raised his eyebrows, "You really went to see the Derby."

While taking Ivor and Raffle to swim home, Lei Boding replied, "Of course, didn't you say you're going to see Derby in the morning?"

Ivor looked very interested at the moment. "Did you go to his house? Did he open the door for you? Did he talk to you?"

"Of course, you opened the door for me and talked to me." Lei Boding replied a little depressed.

But Ivor didn't notice that Lei Boting was in a bad mood, and kept asking, "Then he invited you to his house?"

"Of course not," Rebertine became discouraged at this point, "I asked him about his injuries, and then he kicked me out of his house."

"I'll just say it," Ivor showed an expression of knowing this, but then he patted Lei Boding on the shoulder comfortingly, "But, brother, I have to say, compared to many people in Derby, you That's a big improvement. After all he talked to you and opened the door for you. As for him kicking you out, that's to be expected, he's such a weird mermaid, right? Raffl?" Ave asked Raffl for approval.

Ralph nodded cooperatively, "Yes, that's how weird Derby is."

"Speaking of which," Lei Boding raised his head and glanced at Ivor and Ralph, "you always say he's weird, isn't it just because he drives people out of the house?"

"Of course not," Ivor replied without thinking, shaking his head. "There are still many strange things about him, but sometimes I think his strange things are understandable, because there are reasons for them."

"Huh? How do you say it?" Lei Boting became interested when he heard such obviously informative words.

"That's it..." Ai Fu put his arm on Lei Boding's shoulder and said to Ralph while swimming towards Lei Boting's house.