Origin Blood was the raw material the Creation Goddess used to create all living beings. In the Dream Plane, it was a sacred substance representing the origin of life. Although it was merely one component within the Primordial Seed and the Firstborn's body, its sanctity was beyond doubt. Why should something that stood above the mortal ranks fear a tiny fish barely a foot long?
Hao Ren took some samples from the blood pool and brought Doudou to a house farther from the square to conduct some tests. The results remained unchanged. Whenever the Little Merman approached the liquid, the Origin Blood immediately showed signs of losing its activity or even actively retreating. He placed the Origin Blood in a transparent container and had the Little Merman watch the vial from outside. The latter promptly pressed almost her entire body against the side of the glass tube.
After several tests, he also discovered a strange phenomenon: Doudou seemed to have some control over this "power" of hers.
Whenever the Little Merman gazed at the Origin Blood—or focused her attention on it, to put it another way—the latter's "retreat" became even more obvious. But if the little one shifted her attention away, the "suppression" was greatly reduced, and at times it stopped producing any suppressive effect at all. After Hao Ren conducted several tests, the Little Merman grew somewhat impatient. She stopped paying attention to the "red water" in the container, and its activity gradually recovered.
Doudou hopped around the table boredly before finally jumping onto Hao Ren's arm and hanging there like an armband. She stopped moving, while the Origin Blood in the test container returned to its former state of slowly surging, though its movement was slightly slower than before. Hao Ren stroked the Little Merman's tail and said