Quick Transmigration: The Mad Beauty Refuses to Be the Scapegoat!-Chapter 372 - 22: This Fishpond’s Cannon Fodder Is Contracted (Part 22)
"Hongxing, you don’t want them to hurt me, do you?"
Jiang Lai usually used the simplest way to communicate with the Little Mermaid.
She called him Land Dog, but later realized that whenever she used that name, he would ignore her. So Jiang Lai understood that the Little Mermaid had learned the meaning of the name, and then she asked for his name.
Hongxing.
His name is Hongxing.
Jiang Lai asked him who gave him this name, and the Little Mermaid said it was his father.
Human and mermaid often sat down to chat like this, because Jiang Lai understood his language so she knew all his thoughts. Under such an unfair way of communication, Jiang Lai became the Little Mermaid’s best friend.
Little Buding often complained, saying Jiang Lai was like a creepy aunt who abducts children, tricking the naive Little Mermaid into wholeheartedly trusting her.
The Little Mermaid was indeed simple, but Jiang Lai never lied to him.
For example, right now, Jiang Lai told him that his clansmen were here to kill her, and she might die. After her death, the Little Mermaid would have no friend.
When Jiang Lai said this earnestly, the Little Mermaid slowly leaned over, despite his slender upper body leaning against Jiang Lai’s shoulder being a bit challenging, he didn’t care at all.
"Jiang Lai, you are my best friend."
Jiang Lai looked at his fish tail, the end of which was adorned with a soft, hazy colorful veil that gently flapped the water, creating beautiful colors only nature could create.
In creating mermaids, nature was indeed partial, giving them powerful strength and regenerative abilities, and also an extremely beautiful form. Not only could they swim freely in the sea, but also breathe on land. Jiang Lai had more than once been obsessed with studying the mermaid’s body. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶
It was the first time she had studied a live specimen so closely.
Initially, she hadn’t planned to be so close to the mermaid. After all, she had just treated the Little Mermaid like a dog to be trained at first. But unexpectedly, after the little guy felt the warmth of a land person’s touch for the first time, he developed a strange habit of liking to stick close to Jiang Lai to feel her warmth.
Mermaids have low body temperatures, their bodies are smooth and cold, pleasant to touch but cannot be held for long.
Thus they love to get close to heat sources, which counts as a new discovery. Jiang Lai silently noted down "mermaids love warmth" in her notebook.
"When do you want to go back? You can go back anytime."
Training a situation like the Little Mermaid’s was pointless, too obedient, and with strong learning ability, he had long been able to understand all human speech, not only that but also to speak and write, communicating without barriers.
The purpose of Jiang Lai training him was to hope he could become a breakthrough point for humans and fish to coexist.
Destroying all mermaids was unrealistic, the only possibility was to make them completely surrender.
Since the Little Mermaid was a prince, he was the future Lord of Merfolk. If his attitude towards humans was friendly, a lot of trouble could be saved in the future.
Now the goal has been achieved, and in Jiang Lai’s company, the Little Mermaid had matured, his tail stronger, matured in related aspects as well. It was time to send him back.
But just as Jiang Lai said this, the water in front of her was suddenly upheaved by a splash from a tail, cold drops splashing onto her face.
Jiang Lai took off her glasses, calmly wiping the droplets off them, her tone steady.
"If you have other thoughts, you can just tell me."
Yet the Little Mermaid just jumped into the pool, only exposing his head, a pretty face looking at Jiang Lai, eyes deep blue filled with discontent.
"You want to abandon a friend?"
"I just want to send you home."
"If you don’t agree to go with me, then I won’t leave until you agree."
Though the Little Mermaid had matured, he still was like a stubborn child in thought, latching onto a principle and not letting go, regardless of persuasion, his rigid thinking incapable of accepting advice.
Jiang Lai gave up on reasoning with him.
She quietly took off her glasses, put them aside, then removed her lab coat and hair tie, diving directly into the water.
The Little Mermaid hadn’t expected her to do so, but still cheerfully jumped into the water, circling around Jiang Lai joyfully like a delighted child.
Jiang Lai stayed playing in the pool with him, the mermaid’s huge and powerful tail supporting her, repeatedly leaping out of the water and quickly diving back, like playing at a water park.
The Little Mermaid seemed tireless, as Jiang Lai was dragged into the water again and again. Thankfully, he remembered humans can’t breathe underwater, quickly hugging her waist to lift her. He was having fun with this repetitive game.
The huge fish tail leaped out of the water, shimmering, Jiang Lai riding on his finned back, swimming around the pool with him.
Observing her most familiar mermaid in different ways, the mature Hongxing’s finned back was fully developed, Jiang Lai gently traced a line along his spine with her hand, down towards his fish tail’s base, adorned with colorful blue fins. Unlike other mermaids who always unleash their fins aggressively, this Little Mermaid, both his fins and personality, lay smoothly on his back, allowing her to stroke them.
With a gentle press of a fingertip, the hard Bone Spikes hidden beneath the fish fins could be felt, the mermaid’s major weapon, in total eighteen. They could regrow within three days of being deployed.
Jiang Lai carefully explored, since dead mermaid Bone Spikes dissolve, and live ones had their dorsal fins often cut, she never had the chance to touch a mermaid’s fin. Their most dangerous yet softest part.
With pressure on the tip of the fin spike, the fin membrane would unfold, a fragile piece which a sharp blade could easily sever. Once cut, a mermaid couldn’t erect its dorsal fin to launch spikes.
So Jiang Lai touched a mermaid’s fin membrane for the first time, finding it soft, smooth, with a tender white texture.
The Little Mermaid lay by the pool with his eyes squinting, accepting Jiang Lai’s random touch on his back, as a reward, Jiang Lai’s hand slowly grazed a specific part of his tail gently.
The pool’s water rippled outwards, and the mermaid closed his eyes in bliss, panting. He turned, his deep blue eyes only reflecting a portrait of Jiang Lai. Suddenly, he flipped his body, directly hugging Jiang Lai, holding her tight against his abdomen.
Jiang Lai felt somewhat exhausted, soaking too long in the water making her limbs sore and limp, leaving her to be carried by the mermaid, floating over the water’s surface.
Suddenly, Jiang Lai felt something hard pressing against her stomach.
She recalled dissecting a male mermaid before, unable to help but curse in her mind.
She lowered her head, the Little Mermaid earnestly gazing at her, those eyes soft as a pool of water, pupils drowsy and unfocused.
"Jiang Lai, I want..."
"You don’t want."
Jiang Lai kicked him once, taking advantage of his momentary surprise to grasp the edge of the pool and leap out.
