Quick Transmigration: The Mad Beauty Refuses to Be the Scapegoat!-Chapter 375 - 25: This Fishpond’s Cannon Fodder Is Contracted (Part 25)

Chapter 375: Chapter 25: This Fishpond’s Cannon Fodder Is Contracted (Part 25)

Perhaps Jiang Lai was preparing to escape and became negligent, in any case, this time Ren Yan easily entered the place where the mermaid was held.

When she saw him, he had already been released, alone, locked next to a pool with a chain around his neck that could electrocute at any moment.

Ren Yan instinctively retreated a few steps, looking at the once most familiar mermaid, now filled with fear and anxiety.

The mermaid surfaced, looking at her, his azure eyes extremely calm.

Only then did Ren Yan realize what she needed to do. She gestured with trembling hands, telling him that the mermaids had surrounded the island, Jiang Lai was planning to escape, and would definitely kill all the mermaids locked in the base before leaving.

The mermaid looked at her and slowly extended his hand, making a strange and muffled sound from his throat. Ren Yan widened her eyes in disbelief.

"Why did you come back?"

"You... you can talk now?"

The mermaid didn’t speak further but silently watched her.

Perhaps because he could speak, Ren Yan once again found the initial feeling she had for the mermaid. She mustered her courage and slowly approached.

"Let’s run away, leave this place, otherwise you will die."

The mermaid looked at her and opened his mouth with difficulty.

"Did you come back to save me?"

Ren Yan nodded without hesitation.

"Of course, I came to save you. Jiang Lai asked me to leave with her, but I couldn’t abandon you; she would kill you."

Saying this, the mermaid extended his hands, making a gesture as if to embrace.

Ren Yan’s whole body stiffened, and her feet grew cold. She didn’t dare approach, but thinking of the dangers surrounding the island, she realized she couldn’t survive leaving here without the mermaid’s protection.

So, she walked forward with stiffened legs, gritting her teeth until she reached a range where the mermaid could touch her, then closely adhered to his cold body.

Too cold, like ice, without any warmth, completely different from what she imagined, unable to give her any comfort she desired.

"I’ll take revenge for you."

Upon hearing this, Ren Yan quickly shook her head, realizing it’s not the time for revenge. She needed to leave this dreadful place as soon as possible. As for Jiang Lai, she wouldn’t meet a good end; provoking so many mermaids made it impossible for her to leave this sea alive easily.

But for Ren Yan, it was different. She had the protection of the mermaid in front of her, and others of his kind would probably spare her because of him.

"What’s your name? I still don’t know your name."

The mermaid looked down at her.

"You can call me Yun."

He didn’t know how his name translated into the human language, so he could only choose a random name based on the words he had learned before.

"It’s chaotic outside, no one’s watching. We should leave quickly."

The mermaid looked down at the chain around his neck, extended his hand to pull it forcefully. Previously, just touching this chain would electrocute him with a massive current, making it impossible to move. But this time, even when exerting force, there was no reaction.

Seeing hope, the mermaid directly twisted the chain without hesitation. Despite the blood marks on his neck, he escaped, then immediately embraced Ren Yan and leaped into the pool.

Ren Yan, horrified, wanted to scream, but when she opened her mouth, she swallowed a mouthful of salty seawater, almost causing her to faint.

The freed mermaid quickly opened the valve at the pool’s bottom. His strength was frightening. With the valve destroyed, it revealed a direct water pathway leading under the island. Following this path outward, as they reached the end, light burst forth.

The mermaid lifted his head, looking at the long-lost sunlight above and the fresh seawater around him. At this moment, he had waited too long.

This escape was far simpler than he had imagined, eerily simple even.

But as long as he returned to the sea, he would be free, especially now that he had brought along the girl he liked.

Ren Yan took a deep breath, wiped her face, and looked around to find that the outlet directly led to the deep sea. Looking back, all she saw was a towering wall clouding the sky, with no trace of the base inside.

What lay ahead was an endless ocean. The vast sea, devoid of anything on the surface, with enormous sea winds and waves mercilessly crashing against her face, causing sharp stinging pain. She reached to touch her face, realizing it was wounded and blood stained her fingertips.

Ren Yan shivered uncontrollably with fear.

Where is this place?

What should she do next?

Right, she needed a boat. The mermaid could stay in the sea, but she couldn’t.

"We need to check around the base to see if there’s a boat."

The mermaid swam around the entire base with Ren Yan. The island was vast. After a complete circle, the mermaid, with his dorsal fin not yet healed, was nearly exhausted, not to mention he was holding a human who needed to stay afloat for air constantly.

After a full circle, Ren Yan’s heart sank deeply.

The base’s sole entrance and exit, the harbor, was surrounded by electric nets. Not to mention crossing the land, even approaching slightly would let one feel the frightening current around the electric grid, leaving no place on this vast island for her to rest on land, let alone any boats docked by the shore.

She had passed through this harbor before; all the small boats moored around were gone. The only large ship was teeming with patrols, armed. The mermaid might dodge bullets, but she couldn’t.

"Where are your companions? Can you sense your kind?"

Weren’t the mermaids said to surround the island?

What happened? After a complete circle, not a single mermaid shadow was seen.

Yun also sensed something was wrong.

"There are no companions nearby."

The mermaid could feel his kind from tens of kilometers away by sound, and now if he couldn’t sense any, then there was no way there were mermaids around the island.

Ren Yan was dumbfounded.

"How could it be...they told me the island was surrounded by mermaids..."

If it wasn’t, why would the security measures in the lab be so lax? Why was their escape so effortless? Wasn’t it because Jiang Lai was too busy escaping to handle everything?

What’s going on?

If the island wasn’t surrounded by mermaids, why was Jiang Lai leaving?

Just then, the sole ship in the distance started moving, creating waves that pushed the floating mermaid back. Watching the ship sail away, Ren Yan panicked and frantically slapped the mermaid below her.

"Chase it, help me catch that ship!"

The mermaid remained still, even as Ren Yan’s anxious voice became shrill.

Ren Yan frantically slapped the water’s surface, looking at the receding ship, her eyes filled with despair.