This time, they were under the clear water, and they were surrounded by different fish that swam past them. But these fish were not particularly beautiful. In short, they were very ordinary.
Lu Mengmeng suddenly remembered a joke that the fish grew freely because it was dark in the deep sea where none of them could see each other clearly.
“Where is this?” Lu Mengmeng asked in surprise. She was a human being and had never had the experience of swimming underwater without any protective gear, so she felt very curious.
“This is the nest of the blue cuttlefish. We delivered her here.” Danjinos pouted his lips as a signal. In the distance, several mermen similar to Danjinos were surrounding a cuttlefish with a faint blue light.
This cuttlefish seemed to be having a case of dystocia, with a painful look on her face, while Danjinos and his friends were busy delivering her.
“Come on! Try again, and the child will come out soon!” Danjinos’ friends cheered up the blue cuttlefish that was going to be a mother. It appeared that he was the main person in charge of the delivery.
But somehow, the blue cuttlefish suddenly became manic. Then the man pressed her paw, but his glove was accidentally cut by her.
A few seconds later, he lay quietly on one side of the reef.
“What’s wrong with him?” Lu Mengmeng touched Danjinos’ arm lightly, and she was so shocked that she could hardly speak.
“The blue cuttlefish is poisonous and very violent. In order to help her give birth to a child, he accidentally cut his glove and lost his protection. So. . . At that time, it was the critical moment of delivery, and we could only continue to complete the task with tears. After all, we are more fertile than she is, and we have a longer life span. We are very positive.”
Danjinos’ tone was as relaxed as he could, but Lu Mengmeng could hear that there was a little sadness in his voice.
Danjinos should be sad to see his friend die in front of his eyes.
Lu Mengmeng watched the scene and felt very sad in her heart.
Mermen all knew that it was dangerous to deliver a baby for blue cuttlefish, but for the sake of the racial continuation of the blue cuttlefish, they chose to take risks. Even at the cost of their lives, they would spare no effort.
Lu Mengmeng was still thinking about the merman that died in order to help deliver for blue cuttlefish, but the scene in front of her had begun to fade slowly from her eyes, and next came a volcano.
Standing at the huge crater of the volcano, Lu Mengmeng could feel the ground shaking constantly, and her whole body shook with the ground.
“What’s all this about?” She turned her head and saw the camera on Danjinos’ arm. She was very puzzled.
“This mission is to detect volcanoes. We want to take pictures of the rolling magma and leave precious pictures, so we have been waiting here for several days.”
As Danjinos spoke, he gazed intently at the crater, waiting for the magma that would burst at any moment. Beside him, there were several mermen like him waiting for the moment when the volcano erupted.
After a few minutes, the earth trembled more and more seriously. Lu Mengmeng felt that she was unstable and was in danger of falling down at any time. A few seconds later, the red magma, like thick soup roared out of the crater. The red magma was like a monster with its mouth open, trying to swallow everything down.
This mermen held the camera in their hands and stayed on the front line until the magma was about to swallow them up. They didn’t leap away until it was almost to the point of contact.
Lu Mengmeng was carried directly on Danjinos" shoulder as he ran down the mountain like a strong wind.
Lying on Danjinos’ shoulder, Mengmeng looked behind at the mermen who were scrambling to protect their cameras. Unconsciously, her eyes were wet. Just then, she saw a mermaid, who was shot by the hot magma when she moved a little slower for half a second.
A life disappeared in front of her eyes.
Three hundred years of experiences by Danjinos was thus read by Lu Mengmeng, one by one.
“How do you feel? Do you think it’s shocking?” Danjinos’ hand waved before Lu Mengmeng’s eyes. The device in her eyes had been taken away by him.
She silently said in her heart, Your nation is a typical representative of dying for adventure. If it weren’t for your love of adventure, how could it have ended in ruin?
But their efforts for ecological balance also made her admire them very much. This was an unselfish nation that was dedicated to humans.
At the same time, she noticed another thing. In the past 300 years, almost none of Danjinos and his friends got married. What was the matter?
For this question, Danjinos said, “The world is so wonderful, life is so colorful. So what’s the meaning of reproduction?”
Lu Mengmeng"s lips trembled. “If it’s meaningless, then our marriage . . .”
“But now it’s different. The burden of reproduction is on my shoulder, and we are engaged. I’ll take the reproductive task seriously!”
She was silent for a moment. “If your nationals also thought so at that moment, they would not be what they are now.”
Danjinos nodded. “As mermen, we are not bound by nature. If we had known that this would lead to the widespread extinction of the whole nation, we would have paid a little attention to it, so that I am not the only one left now."
Lu Mengmeng thought of her parents, and said quietly in her heart, No wonder they all came together. Things gather in groups according to their similarities. These three people are just the same kind of person!
But then she thought of another question.
Although Danjinos was the primitive form of modern humans, after evolution and modification of his genes, didn’t his genes produce reproductive segregation?
What if they couldn’t have children after all that time?
Would she be a disgrace to the mermen?
Lu Mengmeng felt the hardship of life with a poor outlook. She was like a tragic wife who couldn’t give birth to a child. She asked Danjinos with great sorrow, “See, you are a merman, I am a human; are you sure we can have a child?”
Danjinos also fell into deep thought. “Ah, you’re right!” He thumped his hand and seriously suggested, “I’ll tell you what . . . let’s try it now!”
“Get out of here!”