Chapter 30: Don’t Touch Randomly

For the sake of restoring the ocean, even if he didn’t like him, did it not matter if they went this far?

Wen Chu looked at Xiu blankly, various inexplicable emotions surging in his heart. Finally, before Xiu completely lost patience, he said, “Touching your scales… touching once can add twenty-four hours, touching inside is forty-eight hours.”

Xiu was momentarily confused about which scales Wen Chu meant by “touching scales,” but after hearing “inside,” he stopped struggling.

He released the hand pinching Wen Chu’s cheek and used that hand to touch the scales on his tail.
Xiu roughly used his fingers to pry open the scales to prepare, then, under Wen Chu’s shocked gaze, let the tip of the tentacle touch his scales.

[Lifespan +24h]

“Mmph…”
He let out a muffled groan.

Wen Chu’s tentacle in human form… was a bit excessive.
Male merfolk scales shouldn’t be used like this. At this moment, stretched to the extreme by the transparent tentacle, it felt like a rubber band about to snap.

But ultimately, it didn’t snap.
The thickness of the jellyfish’s tentacle didn’t vary much from tip to end, plus the mucus on the surface, Xiu only got stuck at the beginning, and then it went smoothly.

[Lifespan +48h]

When the system light screen popped up like this, less than a quarter of Wen Chu’s tentacle had been eaten.

Wen Chu was completely dazed. He subconsciously used his remaining tentacles to support Xiu’s back waist, which was trembling as if it would lose strength at any time, winding several times around the other’s lean waist and abdomen.
Because of this, he pressed against the slightly protruding tentacle mark on the other’s lower abdomen, and Xiu arched completely.
The other scale could no longer hide the traces.

Wen Chu called him carefully: “Xiu…”

The corners of Xiu’s eyes were red, scalp tingling from pleasure and shame. He glared at Wen Chu fiercely: “What is it?”
If Wen Chu dared to say something like “can’t do this if not lovers” at this time, he would do him to death.

Being glared at by Xiu like this, Wen Chu inexplicably started to blush. Feeling the warmth feedback from the tentacle, he whispered even lower: “Have to move to continue adding Lifespan points.”

Although it made him a little sad that Xiu did this to restore the ocean, Wen Chu certainly wasn’t stupid enough to refuse Xiu at this time.

Xiu’s expression froze.
The male brood pouch was completely degenerated, buried in the deepest part.
Just touching it just now, he almost lost strength. Now to continue touching…

Seeing Xiu silent, Wen Chu thought Xiu didn’t want to move with his tentacle, and silently added: “I can do it myself.”

How could Xiu feel at ease letting Wen Chu do it himself? This guy was bent on dying just now. He pressed his lips together, spat out a “Shut up,” and then carefully pulled the tentacle out a bit.
Eat inside again.

[Lifespan +48h]
[Lifespan +48h]
[Lifespan +48h]

…

Xiu was ruthless enough to himself and not afraid of pain, but now it wasn’t as simple as pain.
His entire fishtail seemed to have lost control, limp on Wen Chu’s tentacles. The protruding scales could no longer hide, and his upper body was surrounded by Wen Chu’s tentacles.

Xiu didn’t even dare to look down.
Because Wen Chu’s tentacles were completely transparent.
He dared not look, but Wen Chu saw everything clearly.

Xiu fed him Lifespan points as if his life depended on it. At this time, he was completely awake. He could clearly remember where eating the tentacle would make both him and Xiu tremble, and the tiny opening touched open when adding forty-eight hours of Lifespan.

[Lifespan +48h]

Another forty-eight hours. The gap there was bigger. Xiu shuddered violently and stopped completely.
His current posture was very twisted, above Wen Chu, having to fold his fishtail over to eat Wen Chu, relying entirely on Wen Chu supporting him from behind not to fall due to sudden loss of strength.

“Xiu.” Wen Chu called him again.

Called by Wen Chu, Xiu trembled again, but at this time he couldn’t even show a fierce expression, just eating tighter to indicate he heard.

Wen Chu reached out, grabbed his arm, and pulled the merfolk down directly.
“I’ll do it myself, okay?”

Xiu’s words of refusal hadn’t been spoken before he was pulled down completely by Wen Chu.
Only at this time did he suddenly remember that Wen Chu seemed very strong in human form.

Positions reversed.
Wen Chu regained control of his tentacles.
His Lifespan points had been pulled to thirty days, enough to survive today. logically, Wen Chu should quit while he was ahead.
But looking at Xiu’s scales and his own tentacles, Wen Chu felt he didn’t need to quit so quickly.

This was the mating right Xiu rarely granted him.
And tomorrow would be sixty-four times. It was reasonable for him to save a little more Lifespan points now.

The more Wen Chu thought about it, the more reasonable it felt, and his movement of extending tentacles became much more self-righteous.
Him doing it himself and Xiu doing it were different after all. Xiu couldn’t predict the way and position of his every landing. Just two increases in Lifespan points made him lose his mind completely.

Wen Chu met those unfocused transparent blue eyes.
Xiu.
His.

Gaze moving down, Wen Chu saw Xiu’s lower lip already bitten to bleeding, and leaned down gently.
“Can I kiss you?” Wen Chu asked very obediently.

Xiu didn’t answer, so he took it as a default.
The youth’s soft lips pressed against the merfolk’s thin lips, rescuing the other’s ravaged lower lip.
At the same time, Wen Chu thoughtfully used tentacles to help Xiu solve the other scale.
The moment he touched it, Xiu opened his mouth in panic, allowing Wen Chu to eat his lips and tongue.

Deep kiss.
Three different types of Lifespan points increased together. Wen Chu thought about it and felt a fourth type could be added, so he secretly separated two tentacles to touch Xiu’s nipples.
The other party let out a broken moan.

Wen Chu paused.
He suddenly felt so despicable. Everything Xiu did was for the ocean, yet he was bullying Xiu here.
Actually, according to his original guess, if he just wanted the ocean to recover and gave up the mission, as long as…

Wen Chu’s thoughts were interrupted by Xiu’s dissatisfied light bite on his lips.
Xiu lowered his eyes to look at Wen Chu who suddenly stopped moving. Even if he was the one being pressed, ignoring the messy lower body, he didn’t look weak at all at this time.
“spacing out? Not focused even when doing you.”
As Xiu spoke, he bit Wen Chu again.
Wen Chu shouldn’t feel pain, but at this moment he felt the place bitten on the corner of his lips was hot.

“I…”
Wen Chu opened his mouth, wanting to ask Xiu if he didn’t need to save ninety-nine years of Lifespan to save the ocean, would Xiu still go this far.
But the words were drowned in Xiu’s kiss before exiting.
Wen Chu closed his eyes and concentrated on kissing Xiu.
Let it be.
Hope Xiu can forgive his little selfishness.

.
Wen Chu didn’t finish until noon.
His previous guess was correct; he could transport sperm to every tentacle of his.
The first time he tried transporting with tentacles, Xiu struggled in shock. Wen Chu also couldn’t control it well; except for the tentacle tip, every inch of the eaten tentacle was leaking sperm.
Fortunately, his learning ability was strong enough to control it skillfully the second time.

At this time, Xiu’s fishtail hung weakly, scales unable to close at all, still spitting water in small mouthfuls.
Looking broken.
Wen Chu felt a bit guilty and tried to ask the system he didn’t know was still there: [Can I transfer Lifespan points to Xiu in human form?]

System: […]

Wen Chu: [Can I?]

The system seemed to have crashed. Wen Chu had no choice but to stickily touch Xiu with tentacles, prepared to experiment physically.
However, just as he touched Xiu’s tail, Xiu raised his tail high as if stressed to avoid his tentacles.

“Stop.” Xiu’s voice was already hoarse. “Let me rest for a while.”

Wen Chu didn’t want to continue, but Xiu saying so made him want to feed Xiu’s scales even more.
But continuing would make Xiu angry again.
Wen Chu looked at Xiu’s slowly reddening ears, wrapped the other’s tail with tentacles again, and said slowly and innocently under Xiu’s panicked look: “Not doing it.”
At the same time, he said: [System, trouble you to transfer Lifespan points to Xiu.]

[Lifespan -10h]
[Remaining Lifespan: 98 Days 17 Hours 38 Minutes]

The system remained silent, only popping up the Lifespan screen.
In an instant, Xiu’s fishtail recovered as before, marks on his body disappeared completely, and even the unclosing scales closed again.

Xiu looked at the changes on his body, eyes widening slightly.
His reaction was more intense, almost struggling to shake off Wen Chu’s tentacles, ignoring checking his body for abnormalities, reaching out to grab Wen Chu’s shoulder.
“What are you doing? Who let you transfer Lifespan points to me?!?”

Wen Chu didn’t expect Xiu’s reaction to be so big. He observed Xiu’s expression, finding the other was resisting, and felt a bit aggrieved: “Helping you heal…”
Couldn’t let Xiu continue traveling with unclosing scales.

Xiu frowned, tone very bad: “I know it’s healing. How much Lifespan do you have left? Who let you squander it like this?”
He was just fucked, not dying of injury. Did Wen Chu understand priorities?

Wen Chu looked at his Lifespan points and calculated schemingly: “Can still live for more than a day.”
Ninety-eight days sounded too much. Converting with today’s half-day thirty-two times speed and tomorrow’s sixty-four times speed sounded more miserable.

Xiu didn’t know how much Lifespan points healing required. Hearing this, he was even more annoyed, pulling Wen Chu to kiss: “Hurry up and make up for the Lifespan points used just now!”

Wen Chu pretended to resist, then honestly went to kiss Xiu.
Good kiss, kiss again next time.
Wen Chu profoundly realized at this time how important being useful to Xiu was.
Because he could transfer life to resurrect the ocean, even a little loss of Lifespan points would make Xiu worry, even letting Xiu mate with him.
This was very good.
Just felt a little sour in the heart.
Wen Chu kissed and thought himself into autism. This kiss ended hastily.

Fortunately, Xiu didn’t pursue his lack of concentration this time but stared at his own tail in a daze after the kiss.

“Is it not healed well?” Wen Chu asked.

“…No, healed very well.” Xiu flicked his tail unnaturally.
Healed a bit too well.
The innermost brood pouch was originally stimulated open a bit. He was internally ejaculated by Wen Chu twice; some sperm ran directly into the brood pouch.

The male’s degenerated brood pouch certainly couldn’t conceive.
But because of Wen Chu’s healing, these things that hadn’t had time to be spat out were all locked inside by the re-closed brood pouch.
Including inside the scales, it was still full to the brim. Even when wagging his tail, Xiu could feel the contents sloshing inside.
But obviously, he couldn’t be embarrassed enough to tell Wen Chu these things, nor could he open the scales again to spit it out in front of Wen Chu.

Xiu finally could only hold a belly full of Wen Chu’s stuff, threatening fiercely: “Next time, don’t heal me anymore. Waste of Lifespan points.”

Wen Chu agreed sourly: “Okay.”
Sure enough, in Xiu’s eyes, Lifespan points were important, not him.
Wen Chu, treated as a tool jellyfish. So miserable, a little jellyfish.

Xiu frowned at Wen Chu, who lowered his eyebrows and looked aggrieved: “What’s wrong with you? Still uncomfortable? Is there a solution to your doubled declining Lifespan points?”
It would take three or four days at fastest to reach the Arctic from here. Doubling and doubling, starting the day after tomorrow, Wen Chu’s Lifespan drop speed would reach an astonishing 128 times.
Even if they reached the Arctic, without solving the Lifespan problem, even if fucking once could add 48 hours, there would come a day when even if he let Wen Chu fuck twenty-four hours a day, it wouldn’t be saved.

Wen Chu shook his head sincerely: “No.”
He begged the system so much last time, and the system didn’t soften, so there was really no way.

As Wen Chu spoke, he thought of something and poked the consistently silent system: [After I save up to ninety-nine years of Lifespan, will the Lifespan points stop dropping?]

[Of course.]
The system answered him with a light screen.
Unlike the Lifespan light screen that always followed him, these two words appeared in front of Wen Chu for half a second and disappeared quickly.
Panicked and guilty.

Wen Chu blinked at the place where the light screen disappeared.
Before Xiu noticed something wrong, he retracted his gaze in time and said to Xiu: “There is a way, but need to save up to 99 years of Lifespan.”
“But how many hours is ninety-nine years?” Wen Chu asked curiously.

His math was learned from following the Lifespan countdown on the system light screen, only learning addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division within a hundred to calculate Lifespan points for himself. Any more would make him dizzy.

Xiu calculated: “About 867,840 hours, which is more than thirty-six thousand days.”

Wen Chu relied on his simple math skills, calculating thirty-six thousand as thirty-six, and concluded: “That means touching eighteen thousand times? How many hundreds is this?”
At this time, Xiu had passed the most impulsive moment of emotion. Shame came up, a bit difficult to speak: “180 hundreds.”

Wen Chu let out a shocked “Ah.”
So many.
This was without counting his rapidly dropping Lifespan points.
Xiu didn’t let him waste Lifespan points to heal him either; Xiu would really break.
Wen Chu liked mating with Xiu, but liked Xiu more. He couldn’t break Xiu from mating.

Xiu obviously realized this too. After spitting out a string of numbers, he looked at Wen Chu’s tentacles and fell into a weird silence.

“Um…” Wen Chu said carefully, “Sorry, is it very troublesome?”
“Actually, I don’t necessarily have to save up ninety-nine years of Lifespan, as long as…”

“Shut up.”
Wen Chu wanted to say if just to resurrect the ocean, he had other ways, but was interrupted by Xiu’s fierce tone before finishing.
Hearing Wen Chu’s death-seeking words, Xiu remembered the jellyfish fainting several times and the youth having difficulty breathing.

As if stressed, his face darkened, and his words carried knives: “Didn’t you say you would go to the Arctic with me, resurrect the ocean, and see your Granny Narwhal? You are in such a hurry to seek death? Then why did I save you back then?”

Xiu hadn’t been so fierce to him for a long time.
Even when he sneaked to touch Xiu’s reproductive cavity, Xiu didn’t get angry at him like this.
Wen Chu was stunned by the ferocity, tail of his eyes drooping harmlessly and pitifully: “Sorry…”

How could he forget, his greatest use to Xiu was being able to resurrect the ocean.
If without this ability, he was no different from other jellyfish to Xiu.
After these days, Wen Chu also had some affection for this sea area, but learning he wasn’t as important as the ocean in Xiu’s heart, Wen Chu suddenly felt the ocean wasn’t that good anymore

 Xiu was right; his love was so small.
Small enough to contain only Xiu, not even able to add Granny Narwhal.

Xiu’s heart softened being looked at by Wen Chu, but remembering Wen Chu’s several attempts to seek death, he hardened his heart, not giving an inch: “Don’t think about dying before saving enough Lifespan points.”

Wen Chu gave an “Mn” and asked slowly: “Xiu, we mated. Do you like me then? Can you be lovers with me?”
His sentence reminded Xiu of the liquid still shaking in his belly.
Xiu turned his head away in shame and anger: “I did it to save you. Didn’t I say talk about love or whatever when we get to the Arctic? Besides, why would I love a jellyfish about to die? To be a widow for you?”

That meant no love.
Wen Chu lowered his eyes.
He didn’t know what specific love looked like. Xiu said love requires giving, so he thought of ways to do things for Xiu, but now it seemed he did it wrong.
It wasn’t the first day he knew Xiu didn’t like him.
But this was the first time Wen Chu felt loss in Xiu’s rejection.
So rejection produces such emotions.

Wen Chu sighed leisurely.
Blame the system for suddenly turning him into a human. It must be because he was too ugly now. If he were a jellyfish, maybe Xiu would have agreed.

Hearing Wen Chu’s sigh, Xiu finally couldn’t help glancing at Wen Chu. Meeting the youth’s azure eyes, he moved his gaze away: “…Alright, stop thinking so much. Give me your hand; I’ll take you to find food. We’ll continue to the Arctic this afternoon.”
“Your Lifespan drop speed will get faster and faster. We’d better save enough ninety-nine years before reaching the Arctic.”
Otherwise, with a drop speed of one or two thousand times…
Xiu felt he would really be fucked to death.

Wen Chu hugged his shell nest with tentacles again, obediently handing his hand to Xiu. Xiu pulled lightly, and he was in Xiu’s arms.
Under inertia, Wen Chu crashed into Xiu’s embrace. He subconsciously hugged Xiu’s waist with tentacles. Before hugging tight, he heard Xiu groan.
It was the sound Xiu made when fucked hard and tentacles touched his belly.

Wen Chu was puzzled, looking down at his tentacles.
He wasn’t doing Xiu now.

Following the line of sight, Wen Chu’s gaze finally landed on Xiu’s lower abdomen.
He was about the same length as Xiu, but Xiu’s physique was a size larger than him. Compared to him, the muscles on Xiu’s lower abdomen were exceptionally obvious, eight-pack abs distinct.

But Wen Chu felt Xiu’s belly was a bit strange no matter how he looked now.
He couldn’t resist poking it with his hand.
Soft and squishy.

Xiu shuddered all over, almost shaking off Wen Chu’s hand. He separated a hand to grab Wen Chu’s other hand causing trouble: “Don’t touch randomly.”

Wen Chu was still looking at Xiu’s lower abdomen.
With his wrist grabbed by Xiu, he couldn’t use his hands, so he could only compare Xiu’s current appearance with his memory back and forth, finally asking:
“Xiu, why did your belly get bigger?”

“Shut up.”
Xiu dragged Wen Chu impatiently: “Ask again and I’ll eat you.”

Wen Chu stuttered upon hearing this: “Ah, ah… Eat now?”
Not impossible; his tentacles were ready.
Just eating while swimming, isn’t it too obscene?

Xiu was stunned for a few seconds before realizing what Wen Chu said, saying “Shut up” even fiercer, pulling Wen Chu to swim faster.
He wanted to find some food to plug this stupid jellyfish’s mouth.
Swimming speed increased, the feeling of sloshing inside became more obvious.
Xiu pressed his lips together, starting to think about another more serious problem.
Six days later, Wen Chu’s Lifespan drop speed would break a thousand times.

At that time, it would be hard to even keep Wen Chu’s life, let alone save ninety-nine years of Lifespan.
So these eighteen thousand times had to be finished in the five days to the Arctic.
Five days…
He seemed to really have to get fucked even while traveling.