Quick Transmigration: The Mad Beauty Refuses to Be the Scapegoat!-Chapter 374 - 24: This Fishpond’s Cannon Fodder Is Contracted (Part 24)

Chapter 374: Chapter 24: This Fishpond’s Cannon Fodder Is Contracted (Part 24)

Jiang Lai glanced at him, lowered her head, and continued using tweezers to handle the mud and sand stuck in his tail.

"Your kind is like this. Mermaids possess a stronger physique and more complex brains than humans. Your nature leads to invasion. My existence is meant to stop this invasion."

The premise of harmonious coexistence between humans and nature is that there is no creature in nature more threatening than humans.

Human life is above all else.

Now that mermaids want to shake this, people like Jiang Lai will exist.

Not her, but someone else.

The Little Mermaid looked at her.

"What do you want me to do?"

He was very smart, smart enough to learn some customs and conventions of the human world, as well as some subtle expressions in human language, just by watching the films Jiang Lai showed him.

Like now, he could realize that Jiang Lai was saying these things to lead into what she was about to say.

He was smarter than Jiang Lai anticipated.

"I need you to return to the sea, lead your kind away from human territory, or I will continue capturing mermaids until you dare not show yourselves."

Jiang Lai had enough strength to deter these ambitious mermaids.

But she didn’t want to waste time continuously hunting them.

If possible, Jiang Lai hoped both sides could make things simpler.

The Little Mermaid seriously stared at Jiang Lai.

"And if we leave, how can I meet you again?"

"I left something with you."

Jiang Lai reached out, pointed at his belly, where it was lean and firm, quite mismatched with his fair and clean appearance.

The Little Mermaid touched his belly in confusion, looked at Jiang Lai, and after seriously thinking for a few seconds, he asked.

"I’m male, I can’t bear your child."

"..."

Jiang Lai patted his head.

"I placed a locator so that I can ensure you follow instructions. Wherever you go, I’ll know."

"You know, but what if you don’t come looking for me?"

The Little Mermaid was quite clever; having been abandoned once, he became extra cautious because he knew that once he left here, if Jiang Lai deliberately hid, he might never find her again.

Jiang Lai pressed her lips together, rarely maintaining her patience.

"What do you think should be done?"

The Little Mermaid’s fish tail drooped, and his expression darkened too.

"I have no way."

"Right, no matter what I say, you can choose to believe or not, and if you have no way now, what should you do?"

The Little Mermaid quietly grabbed Jiang Lai’s sleeve.

"I’ll choose to believe; I believe you, I must believe you."

He repeated it over and over, as if dispelling his inner fear and repeatedly reinforcing his significance in Jiang Lai’s heart.

"I will lead my people away, and I trust you will come to find me."

Jiang Lai nodded and sent the Little Mermaid back to the seaside again, stuffing all the candies from her pocket to him before leaving.

Under the scales of the mermaids was space to store small items; the Little Mermaid tucked the candies under his scales one by one. After looking at Jiang Lai once more, he leaped into the sea, slowly disappearing from sight with the rising warm orange glow in the east.

"The mermaids have left."

Soon, even Little Buding couldn’t detect their presence, suggesting they had gone far away.

Jiang Lai wasn’t worried that the Little Mermaid would deceive her, as the guy knew there was a locator inside his body.

Having resolved this matter, Jiang Lai turned around and entered the gym.

Even if the sky fell, it couldn’t interfere with her exercise.

Daily one-hour targeted training transformed Jiang Lai’s originally weak and sickly body into one filled with vitality.

Having regained her health and clear mind, the last thing remaining was probing the secret of the deep ocean.

She had asked the Mermaid Red Star about this matter; his utterly bewildered look wasn’t an act, clearly indicating he didn’t know the secret hidden at the seabed either.

Since that was the case, she could only continue targeting the protagonist.

Ren Yan’s situation was too miserable to look at.

Out of fear, Ren Yan had become a startled bird; any commotion would make her transform into a whistle goblin, her screams disturbing the already sharp-eared mermaids hiding in the pool, unwilling to come out.

They were very hungry, but after several attempts to reach Ren Yan failed, they soon gave up.

When the door opened, Jiang Lai stepped forward and patted her, which immediately triggered Ren Yan’s screams.

"Drag her out."

In matters like these, it was more fitting for Gao Qingjue to handle them given their good relationship.

Soon, Gao Qingjue’s face and neck were covered in blood marks from being scratched, which made him ache so much he wished he could throw Ren Yan into the pool.

After she finally calmed down and saw there were no longer any menacing mermaids around her, she held her head and cried, barely coherent in speech.

"Do you still want to stay with the mermaids?"

"No, please don’t make me stay there anymore!"

Ren Yan was haggard, her eyes bloodshot from constant fear, with the cold environment never allowing her brain to relax; a day and night of high tension had completely broken her down.

Now, she no longer thought about saving the mermaids; instead, whenever she closed her eyes, her mind filled with the terrifying sight of mermaids’ grotesque jaws, utterly beastly, man-eating beasts!

Jiang Lai nodded.

The result was satisfactory.

"Jiang Lai, please let me go, I’m begging you to let me leave."

"The boat to leave the island is already scrapped. If you want to leave, wait a little longer."

When Ren Yan heard she would have to wait longer, fear drove her to not want to stay even a minute longer in this horrific place.

"Isn’t there a yacht? Let the yacht take me away."

"Aren’t you afraid of a mermaid attack?"

Ren Yan was instantly silent.

She was afraid, of course she was afraid; such a large boat could hardly fend off mermaids. A tiny yacht might as well be paper-thin compared to mermaids.

"Wait for now. This island isn’t safe anymore; in a couple of days, I’m also leaving. Until then, stay on the island."

After speaking, Jiang Lai glanced at Gao Qingjue.

"Take her back."

Gao Qingjue supported Ren Yan to the room’s doorway, and just as he turned to leave, Ren Yan suddenly asked.

"Is Jiang Lai kind enough to take me along?"

"What else? I heard from the director that the mermaids have already found the island’s location. We need to leave soon."

Ren Yan felt a tightness in her heart.

"Even Jiang Lai can’t handle the mermaids?"

"So many of them; how could they all be caught? You rest, I’m leaving."

Gao Qingjue didn’t want to talk much with Ren Yan. Judging by the situation, he could vaguely guess how Hu Xintong was doing; everyone on the boat was dead except her, anyone could guess there was a problem.

Ren Yan was restless.

She didn’t believe Jiang Lai would take her when leaving.

So, she had to find a way to save herself.

If the mermaids broke through here, there would only be one way to ensure her survival.