Quick Transmigration: The Mad Beauty Refuses to Be the Scapegoat!-Chapter 373 - 23: This Fishpond’s Cannon Fodder Is Contracted (Part 23)
The mermaid turned over, closely following Jiang Lai, and lay silently by the pool watching her. Its eyes were watery, possibly because the long lashes poked them, looking as if two streams of tears would softly tug at one’s heart.
Jiang Lai recalled the knowledge she had learned. In ancient times, mermaids would use their beauty to lure fishermen into jumping into the water.
Previously, Jiang Lai always thought this saying was questionable, after all, mermaids had fierce and ghastly appearances, and normal people would not be enchanted by such mermaids to the point of courting death.
But now, looking at these eyes in front of her, and the slowly undulating fish tail in the pool, Jiang Lai suddenly felt that the rumor had some credibility.
The mermaid is indeed beautiful, captivatingly beautiful.
Jiang Lai blinked, regaining her rationality.
As beautiful as it is, she does not plan on having a relationship with a mermaid.
"Jiang Lai."
The Little Mermaid kept calling her.
The voice was low and pleasant.
To be honest, it was a bit eerie. When the mermaid spoke other times, the voice was strange and husky and couldn’t be counted as pleasant, but when calling her name, "Jiang Lai" seemed soft and melodious, like soaked in water.
Jiang Lai kept her gaze fixed on his eyes, blue, with vertical pupils like a cat, beautiful yet eerily shining with a deep luster, a pair of eyes unrelated to humanity but somehow familiar.
The Little Mermaid reached out to tug on Jiang Lai’s sleeve, attempting to invite her to continue playing in the water together.
Jiang Lai picked up her white lab coat, put on her glasses, and turned straight into the nearby rest room.
Little Buding sighed in her ear.
"You didn’t see his look, pitiable as if a dog abandoned by the roadside."
Jiang Lai silently changed her clothes, looking through the one-way glass at the Little Mermaid in the pool still lying there, staring longingly at the exit she had left through, the previously lively fish tail now quietly submerged in the water.
Even without seeing his expression, she could feel his low and sad emotions.
"He is mature now and can be sent back to the sea."
"Wow, you are so ruthless." 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮
Little Buding kind of liked this Little Mermaid with a dog-like personality, quick at learning, obedient and gentle, primarily because he is good-looking, felt like he could be a perfect companion pet at home.
However, their intelligence far surpasses most humans, probably only Jiang Lai could train him like a dog, anyone else would have grass three feet high on their gravestone by now.
"You have no feelings at all towards this mermaid?"
"I quite like him."
"If you like him, and still release him, aren’t you afraid he’ll find a mate back home and forget about you?"
The Little Mermaid has a good impression of humans, as long as he returns to the sea and leads the other mermaids, it’s likely to ensure these mermaids won’t appear in human activity zones and start preying on humans as they please.
Of course, Jiang Lai didn’t expect the little mermaid alone to make other mermaids behave, that’s why the mermaids she captured came in handy.
Faced with absolute strength, these mermaids are not foolish enough to continue provoking when they clearly can’t win.
Jiang Lai intended to overpower these sea dominators, and meanwhile, drive a wedge among them from within.
Upon thinking this, Jiang Lai pressed the command button.
"Security department, come over."
The Little Mermaid knew when he was about to be sent away, resisted even more strongly than when he was captured. He was locked in a glass cylinder, then the cylinder was lifted with a hoist and directly tossed into the sea.
Soon, other mermaids arrived, broke the cylinder, and hurriedly rescued the Little Mermaid.
As soon as he was released, the Little Mermaid flicked his tail and swam directly back. The rest of the mermaids chased after him until they neared the base island when they stopped and continuously called their prince to stop.
These mermaids were absolutely terrified of the people on the island, and were afraid of even approaching, let alone attacking.
But the Little Mermaid didn’t care at all, circling around the island over and over again, the large island was fenced everywhere with an electric net, so he could not get close.
In the middle of the night, Jiang Lai was woken up by Little Buding.
"You better go and have a look, if not, you’ll see grilled fish tomorrow."
Jiang Lai frowned, got out of bed, donned a coat, and followed Little Buding’s directions to the island’s periphery.
Under dim lighting, a hole was broken in what used to be tightly fenced off by the electric net, near the mouth of the hole, the vegetation showed signs of being scorched, following this trail inward, she finally found the scarred Mermaid Red Star in the grass.
Jiang Lai looked at him with complicated feelings.
The Little Mermaid sensed someone approaching but didn’t resist much, just looked up. When he saw who it was, his slightly dim eyes instantly burst with bright light.
Sparkling lights glimmered everywhere in the grass, these were scales from his tail rubbed off on the way here, looking again at his fish tail, scars were all over, even the most beautiful film at the end was dirty.
Jiang Lai squatted down, silently watching him.
"Didn’t you say you liked the sea? Why come back?"
"You imprisoned me before, now you’re driving me away, Jiang Lai, I am a mermaid, not a dog."
This sentence laid bare Jiang Lai’s selfishness.
She used to view the mermaid merely as a research subject on an experiment table, while the mermaid saw her as an unforgivable mad scientist, one human, one mermaid, they antagonized each other yet managed a peaceable coexistence.
But now, a societal experiment and training brought out such a situation.
It indeed was beyond Jiang Lai’s expectation.
Her initial goal was simply to coexist in peace with fish and humans by training the immature Little Mermaid.
Now it had overbalanced, turned into a hassle.
Jiang Lai brought him back to the lab and applied medicine to his wounds.
This was Jiang Lai’s first time doing such, fortunately, she knew mermaids, could wield not just a scalpel but gauze as well.
The Mermaid Red Star silently watched her, head lowered with eyes looking up, appearing a bit bashful and even a bit flattering.
If it weren’t her standing before the mermaid, Jiang Lai would have been tempted to jot down the mermaid’s behavior in her notebook.
Could it be these fish bask in the sea so much that their brains become waterlogged, hence each one is a romantic fool?
In the original plot, the male lead willingly came ashore to live for the female lead, nearly forced evolution for love.
This one in front seemed about the same.
In such a comparison, Jiang Lai resembled an irresponsible heartbreaker, toying with a fish’s affections.
"In the past three years, your kind killed over four thousand people, it’s almost always due to active provocation and malicious slaughter, to you, humans are merely prey in my view."
The Little Mermaid listened, shook his head repeatedly.
"I’m not like that."
