This Beauty is Out from Space Chapter 5

After pulling Elliot closer to her, the mermaid leaned on his shoulder, her pale hair cascading down, looking beautiful yet weak. In stark contrast to this was the look the mermaid gave Allen. Her watery red eyes stared at the captain without blinking, and from an angle that Elliot couldn't see, she curled her lips provocatively at Allen.

The evil that suddenly appeared from the creature opposite, which had always been weak and docile, was fascinating and chilling. Allen opened his mouth, and the next moment, he realized that he actually found a mermaid scary. The captain himself couldn't help laughing. He said to Elliot: "You seem to be very familiar with it."

"I fed it some food when I came to see it last time," Elliot turned around and said, "Will you let it go when we get to the Mermaid Galaxy?"

Before Allen could answer, the basement suddenly shook violently. Strong tremors came from all directions, and the indestructible starship made a cracking sound. Allen and Elliot looked at each other for a moment, and the former's face changed: "We hit a wormhole!"

Even in the future when technology is highly developed, some wormholes are still a mystery to humans. Although people try to use wormholes to travel through space, not all wormholes represent safety and convenience. The wormholes in the Mermaid Galaxy have always been dense. If such an accident occurs, no one knows where the starship will end up and what degree of damage it will suffer.

The mermaid's cold body pressed against Elliot's, and he patted his head soothingly. After an unknown amount of time, when the shaking and destruction stopped, the door of the basement was suddenly pushed open, and a bounty hunter with an ugly face found Allen and spoke quickly: "Boss, our engine has a problem, it's very serious! The accelerator flew out directly, and the spare accelerator and the big engine have problems, and the technicians are rushing over to repair them."

"Oh sh*t."

Alan cursed.

"And..." The bounty hunter showed a look of fear and confusion: "There is another starship not far from where we are docked."

"Ask them for help?"

Elliot interrupted.

"No, no," the hunter shook his head, "that starship is at least two hundred years old. That means two hundred years ago, there was another group of unlucky people who were swept into this hellhole like us, and they didn't get out in the end."

The hunter who came to report the news and Allen rushed to the engine area of the starship together. Elliot was not suitable to go with them. When he returned to the hall, the door of the starship was already open. From the slightly damaged door, Elliot could see a starship parked not far away. He thought for a moment and jumped down from the door, following some curious hunters into the starship that was built two hundred years ago.

From the outside, this starship was much larger than Allen's, and there was a Federation logo in the ship's cabin, which probably represented the most advanced technology at the time. The outermost metal shell of the starship had been corroded by seawater for the most part. The bounty hunters quickly visited every part of the starship. Strangely, no one found corpses anywhere. Elliot tried to find useful information as much as possible. If he had an accident and was trapped in a place with no signal and no way to ask for help...

He eventually found a notebook in the corner of the captain's room. Since the advent of the era of the universe, fewer and fewer people are used to writing, and bounty hunters usually don't think of looking through notebooks and notes. Elliot found a suitable place to open the notebook. In the notebook, he learned that this starship belonged to the federal military, and these soldiers were sucked into the wormhole like them. At the beginning, everyone still had hope for the future. They drove a small lifeboat to survey the surrounding area for nearly a thousand miles. Except for the empty ocean, there was still ocean. The strange thing was that the lifeboats sent out usually could not all return, and the soldiers on night watch would inexplicably disappear in the depths of the night. The soldiers gradually realized that there were other creatures on this planet besides them, and that kind of creature had no good intentions towards them. As his companions died one by one, the owner of the notebook began to call that kind of unknown creature "evil ghost".

Evil ghost.

If he remembered correctly, in A's information, a shipwreck survivor had used the same word to describe a species, and the guy called the evil ghost was still pushing against him half an hour ago.

What interested Elliot most were the following paragraphs. The victim must have been extremely desperate when he wrote these words. The crooked handwriting made him barely legible with some effort. The victim said that the evil spirits surrounded their starship, and the crew members who did not agree with them were drained of blood alive, while those who agreed with them were forcibly dragged into the sea. The poor victim did not understand why these beautiful monsters took humans to the ocean until he saw his long-lost companion being held in the arms of an evil spirit, and in that person's mouth... there was a pearl-like ball.

This was not the first time he had seen this kind of sphere half the size of an adult's fist. This kind of shiny and beautiful sphere often floated on the sea surface next to the starship. The naturalist on the ship had told them that this was the egg of some creature. The most incredible thing was that this kind of egg had completed self-fertilization since birth. Compared with sexual reproduction, it was more like the product of individual division. In other words, the birth of white eggs only required the father but not the mother. Although it was unknown what kind of creature used this almost unscientific way to reproduce, there was no doubt that even a white egg with strong vitality needed a suitable environment to grow. Most of the white eggs that were picked up died. They seemed to like high temperatures very much. Now it seemed that the white eggs came from evil spirits. If the evil spirits wanted to find a warm place in the cold and vast ocean, there was no doubt that humans were the most suitable choice.

The warmest part of a person's body, besides the mouth, is...

Elliot paused slightly, smiled, shook his head, and turned to the next page.

The last record, on a stormy night, the demons surrounded the starship. The victim saw them sending the captured humans one by one to one of the creatures with a human body and a fish tail. If it was not interested, the other demons would dare to continue to touch humans. It was like it was their leader, it had the right to choose the sacrifice that pleased it the most. That special demon exuded an ominous aura. He was also sent to it. Because of panic, the victim forgot its appearance, and only remembered that it had a pair of red eyes, the color of curse.

The following records became intermittent, and the handwriting became increasingly sloppy. It was really hard to understand what the owner wanted to convey, so Elliot gave up reading. He knew without hesitation that the evil ghost referred to the mermaid. What concerned him was the strange motherless reproduction method of the mermaids and the mermaid leader mentioned in the notes. If the mermaid was still alive, the time it had to bear must be beyond imagination, just like... the femme fatale on the Allen ship with a life span of hundreds of millions of years.

After making sure that he could not find any more valuable information, Elliot burned his notes. He returned to Allen's ship. It was getting dark. Just as in the notes, the bounty hunters he sent out to search found that the surroundings were all deserted oceans. After dinner, he went to the basement where the mermaids were imprisoned. Unexpectedly, the white eggs he saw in the notes during the day were actually seen at night.

The mermaid in the water tank was lazily playing with the small ball in her hand. It looked extremely beautiful, as if it was born not long ago. The thing was only the size of a thumbnail, and its smooth surface glowed with a soft pearl-like color under the light. If no one told Elliot the truth, even he would have mistaken it for a priceless pearl.

"What's this?"

Elliot approached it, and the mermaid handed him the bead. It motioned Elliot to hold the small bead with both hands. After a while, the bead became a little bigger, as if stimulated by the temperature. He could see the time contained in this small ball, a full three thousand years. The naturalist on the warship was right. Mermaids do not need sexual behavior to produce offspring. Rather than reproduction, this is more like individual division.

Elliot lowered his eyebrows and smiled: "Is this magic?"

"......"

The mermaid shook her head and took the egg from him. Elliot held her hand and asked, "Do you have a name?"

Seeing the mermaid continue to shake her head, Elliot said: "In human legends, there is a kind of sea monster called Siren. They are as beautiful as you, and their voices are as beautiful as the sound of nature. Siren is good at using singing to confuse passing ships. When a ship hits a reef, the sailors on the ship will become their prey. Do you like this name?"

Elliot's voice flowed in the quiet room. The waves outside the window and the young man's voice intertwined together, indescribably stirring people's hearts. The mermaid nodded. In fact, it was estimated that no matter what he said, the confused creatures in front of him would nod.

"My name is Elliot," he approached it. "This is my real name, Siren, remember it."

Everyone's supernatural powers have limitations to a certain extent, and Elliot is no exception. If the person he steals time from is much more powerful than him, there are two constraints on the use of Elliot's abilities: first, the person whose time he steals must know his real name; second, he can only successfully steal time when the other person has let down his guard and has a good impression of him.

He saw the mermaid staring at him.

"Then------" Elliot intertwined his fingers with the mermaid's and kissed her forehead gently: "Goodbye, little red-eyed beauty."

The moment the supernatural power was activated, a large amount of time flowed from the mermaid to Elliot's brain. Its pearly skin lost its luster and its face gradually turned pale. Taking away all the time of any creature can lead to death. Elliot didn't want to kill it so early at first. After all, it was rare to meet someone with a look he liked. The evil and possessiveness in the mermaid's character were within his acceptable range. The problem was that the mermaid in front of him didn't seem to be an ordinary mermaid. With red eyes, intelligence, good disguise and an astonishing amount of time, all these conditions combined, it should be the mermaid who was the leader two hundred years ago. In that notebook, it is not difficult to see that mermaids are creatures with thoughts and emotions. They will choose the humans they like. Judging from everything that has happened recently, he should have been chosen by it.

Although it was a pity that he could not subdue the beauty, the danger level of the mermaid was beyond Elliot's imagination. Fish eggs were a trivial matter, after all, the white eggs could be made to grow by holding them in your hands. The real trouble was its identity as the leader, which would reduce the possibility of him leaving the mermaid galaxy again and again.

【Long...Long Night...】

A voice he had never heard before suddenly appeared in Elliot's mind. The tone was like the song of a siren, charming and dark. The mermaid seemed very sad, and the barely perceptible sobbing and bloodless cheeks made it look like a naive child.

【Why... did you lie to me? 】

[You want time...I can give it to you...]

Mermaids have too much time.

He simply couldn't use up all the time in a few seconds. Elliot stopped moving, and stared at the mermaid with his midnight eyes. Killing intent gradually emerged in his eyes. Just as his fingers stretched out to the mermaid's neck, the latter swung her tail and splashed water all over him. The strange sound continued in his mind. The mermaid was singing. His ability seemed to be sealed and unusable in the singing. The basement also collapsed rapidly under the stimulation of the sound waves. The mermaid looked at him deeply, and the expression in her watery red eyes was unpredictable. He saw Elliot holding his head and squatting down. After all, he did nothing and swam back to the deep sea through the crack in the hull.

Crap.

After the mermaid left, the singing that stimulated his brain suddenly stopped. The young man relaxed and fell to the basement as if he was deflated. He raised his hand, and now he could see that the time on his body had turned into seven million years.

I always feel like a scumbag. First, he coveted her beauty and wanted to sleep with her, and then he killed her when things changed. If he was a mermaid, he would have turned evil by now, or at least dragged the other person to death with him... He is really a scumbag.

"That's right," he said to himself, as if he found his rare hypocrisy funny. The young man's obsidian eyes curved softly: "But it's hard to steal."