Stop Thinking Chapter 12: Little Dumb Fish

Chapter 12: Little Dumb Fish

Translated by Addis of Exiled Rebels Scanlations

Editor: Karai

The base had a premium living area divided exclusively for officers, a small independent building that conveniently allowed families to live together. The indoor intelligent home was complete, and it was also uniformly equipped with robots that could handle simple household chores.

Qin Yue was considerate and arranged a residence facing the sea for them, not only could they look at the sea through the floor-to-ceiling windows, but there was also an entrance to the sea on the first floor, so they could dive into the sea along the internal passage without going out, which was an optional design for human officers, but it was convenient for Ruan Yu.

When Ruan Yu saw that, he couldn’t help himself, he asked, “Brother Xiuhan, can I go to the sea for a while? I’ll be back when it’s dark.”

The area where the living base was located had a complete security system, an eggshell-shaped force field shield surrounded the entire base, and the protective area was equipped with a dead-end biological scanning system. Marine creatures judged as “harmful” or humans without permission to break through the barrier would be warned and expelled at different levels, so safety was absolutely guaranteed. 

“Go and play.” Gu Xiuhan warned, “Don’t swim too far.”

The attendant stomped up to the second floor with his things.

The first floor was empty, Ruan Yu did not bother to go into the room to undress, smoothly pinching the casual pants drawstring a tug. The knot closure loosened, the youth’s own hip bones narrow, he was thin, feet in the pants gently stepped out, the edge of the pants slipped over the crisp bone crest, straight down.

It was too fast, the whole process was less than a second, Gu Xiuhan could not even move his eyes away.

Fortunately, the top was not short, the hem covered a lot, only a small glimpse of the narrow edge of the aqua blue, as well as the white skin could be seen.

There was a thin line of light through there.

The heart beating sternal pain, before Ruan Yu continued to take off his shirt Gu Xiuhan hastily sidestepped to avoid, the profile of a sharp and cold face was slowly dyed red as his wheat skin could not hide the blush. Hearing the footsteps of the orderlies coming down the stairs, he lowered the brim of his military cap as a cover, squatting down to pick up the few pieces of clothing with the sweet warmth of body fragrance.

He was unwilling to recall it, but that scene was burned into his retina. The hot blood rushed to his head.

…

Ruan Yu was not aware that he had almost caused Gu Xiuhan to burst his blood vessels by taking off his pants, and was very excited to dive into the deep sea.

The scent of the sea was almost identical to that of his home planet. Ruan Yu breathed deeply, and the liquid jade-like clear, ethereal blue water rushed into his gill cavity, giving him the illusion of returning home.

He did not know the species on the new planet, but as long as those were water creatures, he mostly found them friendly and lovely at first sight. The mental energy of mermaid royalty was naturally in tune with water creatures, and its influence was particularly strong, and when the strange mental fluctuations spread through the water, a quiet and warm feeling surged through the primitive thinking organs of these little creatures. As if returning to the mother or egg sac, floating comfortably with the rhythm of the waves.

Following their instincts, the creatures wanted to be closer to the source of comfort and gathered towards Ruan Yu, touching him with their tentacles or fins in a friendly manner. Some of the crustacean arthropods that excavated waved their big tusks at Ruan Yu, attempting to invite him into the small sand pit they had dug out. Another group of round, fat, spiny spherical creatures tamely put away their spines and floated around Ruan Yu, one by one, puffing and deflating their bodies into flat shapes, floating limply around Ruan Yu, not sure what their intentions were, but about the touching style, and Ruan Yu had to touch them one by one.

This area of almost the entire sea flourished with a kind of light algae, usually transparent and difficult to observe with the naked eye, would light up only when there was some special disturbance, using light signals to send messages. And at this time the furry light algae balls seemed to wake up, and the peacock blue fluorescence slowly lit, gradually spreading to all areas within reach of the naked eye on the base, with the highest frequency of light algae flashing, like a group of children leaping for joy.

…

The widespread abnormal flickering of light algae in the ocean caught the attention of the base crowd. It was not yet time for the evening break, but in addition to the disciplined engineering unit soldiers, many of the base staff who could not hold back their curiosity already ran over to see the action. The officers’ families even all flocked to the shore, but wherever they could land were crowded with people watching the fluorescent sea.

There was no shortage of information among these people, someone revealed that this time when Gu Xiuhan came to supervise the progress of the project, he brought that mermaid royalty rumored to live in his home to his treatment. The strange scene in the sea should be the work of the mermaid.

This gossip spread through the crowd in no time. As a result, when Ruan Yu surfaced from the deep sea, intending to watch the planet’s extraordinarily magnificent sunset, there was a crowd of onlookers on the shore with a lot of “came out”, “floating up”, “quick take a quick pic”. He was so scared that his tail snapped the surface as he dove down.

Why were there so many people…

What to do, ah.

Light algae in sync with Ruan Yu’s spirit sensed the threat and unease, and all together extinguished to reduce their presence, dulling as if they had died a violent death en masse.

This change made the excited and noisy sound on the shore gradually diminish to a chattering whisper. With fewer distractions, the sound of people’s mental activity became clear.

Most of these base staff and accompanying family members of the military were of ordinary D to B genetic level, and what was thought was easy to hear.

[Gone, did we scare the mermaid?]

[Aaaaahhhhhh, it’s my fault for just shouting too loud!]

[Please, please, just pop your head up again, oooooooooh this time I’ll be sure not to yell again…]

…

Feeling that they were not malicious, Ruan Yu wagged his tail and still did not swim close, but only discreetly showed a head from the water, shaking the water on his hair, curiously observing the people on the shore.

There was a previous experience of scaring the mermaid away, so this time people showed great restraint, no one dared to shout, only closed their mouths to watch and record.

[It’s really a mermaid ah, ear fins like yarn]

[The hair flip is so cute, I took a picture of it!]

[Like a scared little kitten ooh ooh ooh, mommy’s heart is soft and fluffy.]

…

“?”

Ruan Yu was stunned and sluggishly turned his head to look, his watery eyes looking at the girl.

An excited, flushed doll’s face, probably a sister of some officer, looked like she was just a teenager, obviously not older than him, and actually called herself mom.

[Ah he looked over, round eyes so cute, I died, I seem to be a change too, Admiral Gu’s family is still short of serving fish…]

Most of the other people’s heart sounds were similar in content, there were many female family members on the shore, Ruan Yu passively harvested a group of enthusiastic wild sister/mom/aunt, face were burned through, from the end of the eyes to the collarbone were pink, he hurriedly sank down.

The humans he encountered this time were so strange…

He couldn’t stay outside, he had to go back to his room.

After diving into the water and turning around in a chaotic manner, Ruan Yu remembered that he was so excited to go into the sea that he forgot to remember the route back to his house, and the terminal was also turned off automatically because he had been recording videos for Gu Xiuhan to watch after going into the sea.

Fortunately, he remembered the door number and Gu Xiuhan’s contact number.

Ruan Yu hesitated, surfaced again, swam slowly to the shore, picked up the edge of the shore with his white fingers, tilted his face and asked, “Excuse me, in which direction is 101 A…”

The crowd immediately pointed the way.

[The fish is lost.]

[Hahahaha can’t find home.]

[Stupid little fish, mercy.]

Ruan Yu pursed his mouth politely, and forced himself not to retort.

Not stupid ah, just couldn’t remember. If he wanted to remember, he could have remembered…

Ruan Yu didn’t dare to ask, for fear that they would secretly accuse him of being a stupid fish, so he pretended to think about the route and said calmly, “I see… but it’s too far to swim back from here. Can you please lend me your terminal? My phone is off.”

[It’s not far… you didn’t understand the directions, did you?]

[A confused face is still pretending to be calm hahahahahaha.]

[Pfft, so cute, hurry up and cooperate, don’t hurt the fish’s self-esteem]

…

The surrounding people saw through everything with the light speed.

Ruan Yu’s face, which had yet to recover from blushing, began to heat up again in shame.

“Ah, yes, yes.”

“It’s really quite far.”

“It’s better to have someone send a pontoon boat to pick you up.”

Not to listen to Xin Yin, these people were considered to be the acting school, each with a warm and sincere face, scrambling to hand several terminals towards Ruan Yu.

Ruan Yu took one of them, afraid that it would be impolite to leave too far away with someone else’s terminal, tried to swim out two meters, turned around and leaned his back against the shore stone, sent voice communication to Gu Xiuhan, and sent a location coordinates to ask him to pick him up.

After using the terminal, Ruan Yu deleted the call records just now and returned it. He wanted to go to the bottom of the sea and hide, but the girl who he borrowed the terminal from clearly wanted to talk to him more, so it seemed selfish of him to turn his back on people after asking them for help.

So Ruan Yu had to wait in the same place and honestly answer some harmless questions from people around him to satisfy their curiosity about the mermaid royalty.

“I’m an adult, I’m eighteen, and I’m differentiated, I can walk like you guys… Just forgot my pants.”

“A sub-male is a sub-male, not a female, so of course it’s not the same… What? … A lot of features are different, I can’t say anymore, Brother Xiuhan doesn’t let me talk to people about that.”

“Mermaids are born to sing, the melody naturally is in the mind, no learning.”

…

The strange heart sounds around the whole time never stopped, what is cute ah, stupid ah, want to go to the admiral’s house to steal fish ah …

Ruan Yu had never experienced such a large crowd, bashful ear fins were steaming, fish tail curled upward, head drooping, panic picking the tip of the tail, like human beings fiddling with their fingers when nervous.

“I heard that mermaids can read the brain waves of living organisms… To what extent are they able to read?”

Suddenly, someone asked the important question.

Ruan Yu replied honestly, “It’s like listening to someone else’s speech.”

The crowd let out an unintelligible “ah” and looked at each other in disbelief.

[No way, how come I heard that mermaids were not that powerful, just read the emotions or something, is it because he is from the royal family…]

[Then isn’t that what I just thought was heard?]

“Yeah, I just can hear everything.” Ruan Yu bit his lower lip, his fingers slowly gripped the fin veil tightly, raised his eyes to those people, a little upset, but still politely negotiated with the people, “Can you guys stop calling me stupid in your minds…”