Quick Transmigration: The Mad Beauty Refuses to Be the Scapegoat!-Chapter 376 - 26: This Fishpond’s Cannon Fodder Is Contracted (Part 26)

Chapter 376: Chapter 26: This Fishpond’s Cannon Fodder Is Contracted (Part 26)

"What are you doing? Why aren’t you moving? Clearly, you can catch up, so what now? The base is locked, and I can’t find a boat. How am I supposed to get back to shore?"

Ren Yan spoke more and more desperately.

This island is three hours away by boat from the nearest coastal city, assuming you can even find the direction. Now it’s just her and a mermaid on this vast sea, in unfamiliar and dangerous waters, how can she reach the shore?

Gao Qingjue lied to her, tricked her into thinking mermaids surrounded her, tricked her into leaving the base in a heat of the moment, and now she’s isolated and helpless.

The mermaid beneath her has been silent for a long time.

Ren Yan’s breathing was rapid. When she finally lost sight of the giant ship’s silhouette, she calmed down and returned to reality, realizing how desperate her situation was.

High walls surround the island so entering the base is impossible, and there’s no boat for her to sit on. Her only reliance is the mermaid beneath her.

This is all Jiang Lai’s conspiracy. She must have planned it all along; otherwise, how could the bottom of that pool directly connect to the sea?

Jiang Lai did this to kill her on the sea!

As she calmed down, Ren Yan started to cry. She tightly held the mermaid’s neck. Her warm tears scalded the mermaid’s skin as they fell, letting him immediately sense the emotion of the person on his back.

"I’m really scared. I don’t want to die without knowing why on the sea. I miss home. Can you take me home?"

The mermaid remained silent for a moment, recalling everything this woman had done for him before.

He couldn’t leave her.

Staying in the sea means only death for her.

The only option now was to carry her non-stop, delivering her to a human-inhabited shore.

——

On the deck, Jiang Lai lay under a sun umbrella, wearing sunglasses, sipping fresh juice while enjoying the sunshine and listening to Little Buding joking beside him.

"This could be considered a huge test of the protagonists’ romance path. Even if the mermaid has a keen sense of direction, the straight-line distance alone is hundreds of kilometers. Full speed ahead would take eight to nine hours, not to mention he is already off course.

Jiang Lai, you are the ultimate villain. You shouldn’t be cannon fodder. The protagonists’ bad luck truly begins when they encounter you."

Jiang Lai changed his position and continued to sunbathe.

"What did I do? I only provided them with the conditions; the final choice was theirs to make."

Cutting off the power on the iron chain, building the water pool above the drainage outlet, surrounding the island with a power grid. What else did she do?

She didn’t put a knife to the female lead’s neck to make her seek the male lead’s help.

Nor did she point a gun at them, forcing them to leave through the drainage outlet.

All decisions they made themselves, and they must bear the consequences.

"But this road is truly perilous. The route chosen by the male lead has a pod of orcas and a school of sharks. Without a dorsal fin, if the male lead encounters them, the odds might not be in his favor."

What’s more, there’s also the burden he carries.

Mermaids typically don’t travel alone and always appear in groups, so they are the rulers of the sea. Any sea creature seeing them detours.

But the male lead is alone, injured, carrying a female lead who turns into a siren at any sign of danger.

Jiang Lai is driving them into a dead end.

"He must be driven to despair."

——

Three hours later, the mermaid was nearing exhaustion.

Still recuperating from severe injuries, carrying over a hundred pounds, unable to stop to rest, only pushing forward with determination.

The sun on the sea grew stronger and more blinding, Ren Yan dehydrated, her facial wounds hurting her worse than death.

Thinking things couldn’t get worse, Ren Yan soon noticed the approaching sharks not far off, the fins slicing through the water feeling like a death omen.

The sharks weren’t after the mermaid; they were after Ren Yan on the mermaid’s back.

Ren Yan clung tightly to the mermaid’s neck, trembling with fear and despair. To survive, the mermaid sheltered her behind him, facing three sharks head on.

Sharp claws and fangs were still menacing, two sharks were gutted, and the remaining one fled, but not before biting Ren Yan’s leg.

The mermaid ripped open the shark’s belly, prying open its mouth, pulling Ren Yan’s leg free.

Her leg gushed blood, mixed with the shark’s, drawing carnivorous fish to the area.

Seeing this, the mermaid decisively exerted pressure on his wounded dorsal fin, forcing out white fin glue, quickly applying it to Ren Yan’s bleeding leg.

The bleeding stopped quickly, and the mermaid continued moving forward with her, away from the blood source.

Already in immense pain, her leg only stopped bleeding but still hurt, especially soaking in seawater, causing her to cling tightly to the mermaid’s arm, crying out repeatedly.

"It hurts, it hurts so much. I’m going to die of pain."

She craved water, needed food, wanted to escape this godforsaken place never to return.

Past dreams vanished from her mind. She loathed the ocean, hated all sea creatures, a group of monsters beneath their beautiful facade. Were she Jiang Lai, she’d purge these things too.

She now resented the mermaid, Gao Qingjue, and most of all, Jiang Lai, who deliberately led her to such harm. If she died, she’d haunt Jiang Lai even in death.

Pain rapidly robbed her of reason, staring at the mermaid’s dorsal fin, she abruptly squeezed it hard.

The sudden agony nearly toppled the mermaid, throwing Ren Yan off his back.

Ren Yan protected the fin gel she seized, unhesitatingly smearing it across her face.

Sure enough, the searing pain on her face quickly dissipated, replaced by a cool feeling providing temporary relief even quenched thirst.

Her gaze shone, fixating on the mermaid’s fin.

"I’m dying, save me, I’m truly in agony."

The mermaid refused her.

"This, it’s gone. My dorsal fin can never heal throughout my life."

Fin glue grants mermaids powerful regenerative abilities, squeezing too much once risks irreparable harm to his dorsal fin.

A mermaid without a dorsal fin is akin to death.

Yet Ren Yan kept pleading.

"Please, give me a little more. My leg is in so much pain, I might lose it altogether, and you’re only giving me a small bit of fin glue. It wouldn’t harm you."

Not waiting for the mermaid’s reply, Ren Yan gripped another wounded fin spot, squeezing fiercely, extracting a stream of fin glue quickly applied to her leg and face.