Lan Yin looked in the direction where the little female was hiding, recalling the female's frog-like movements and her funny guilty expression, and a smile appeared in her eyes again.

The guards were puzzled, not knowing what the king was suddenly laughing about.

Lan Yin also realized his own abnormality. He coughed lightly, put his fist to his lips, and asked, "So, how's your search going?"

The guard lowered his head, somewhat ashamed: "We haven't found it yet."

Lan Yin nodded, then glanced at the water plants where Yu Wanwan was hiding.

He wondered if the little female had changed to an even stranger position; he had to go and see for himself.

Lan Yin said, "I've been staying here the whole time. Nobody's been here. You should look elsewhere."

The guard nodded: "Yes."

By this time, Yu Wanwan had already climbed some distance. She heard the mermaids talking and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

She waited patiently among the water plants for a while longer, still holding the lanternfish in her palm, and could feel the little fish struggling.

Thankfully, she wasn't discovered, and the mermaids left. It should be safe here now.

Holding the little lanternfish in her hands, Yu Wanwan struggled to get up on her elbows, which, in Lan Yin's eyes, was yet another strange posture.

He couldn't help but ask, "What are you doing?"

Yu Wanwan was startled by the sudden sound and fell heavily back down.

Although the buoyancy in the water reduced the impact somewhat, this time the wound on her leg still reopened, and blood began to seep out.

Yu Wanwan slowly raised her head and met Lan Yin's interested gaze.

She paused for a moment, then realized that the mermaid's features resembled a larger version of Liu Ge.

"I...I..." she stammered, and I didn't know how to answer for a long time.

The lanternfish sensed that Yu Wanwan was relaxing, so it rammed into her and broke free from her palm, then bumped against Lanyin's hand again and again.

If it could talk, Yu Wanwan would probably be able to hear its complaint right now.

Seeing that Lan Yin ignored it, the little lanternfish flicked its tail and quickly left the water plants.

Watching it disappear, Lan Yin asked again, "What are you doing here?"

His voice was clear and gentle, and his attitude was very mild, but Yu Wanwan found herself in an awkward situation.

"I...I lost something, so I came to look for it."

As soon as the words left her mouth, Yu Wanwan regretted it.

That's a really lame excuse.

"Oh?" Lan Yin raised an eyebrow. "Did you lose something? Do you need my help?"

"No need." Yu Wanwan waved her hands repeatedly, "Thank you, I can find it myself, you should go now."

Hurry up and leave, so she can slip away.

Lan Yin nodded, flicked her fishtail, and actually retreated a short distance.

Yu Wanwan was shocked.

This mermaid is so easily fooled! She just left without a word.

Lan Yin stopped two meters away from her, looking at the little female's expression, trying hard to suppress the corners of her mouth that couldn't help but turn up: "What are you thinking? You don't think I'm so easy to fool, that I would actually leave just like that, do you?"

Yu Wanwan nodded subconsciously, but after realizing what she meant, she quickly denied it: "No, I didn't think that."

Lan Yin swam back, his hands behind his back, his upper body leaning slightly forward: "You must be a female member of the hot-blooded beast race who was captured and brought back. Tell me, why are you here? At this time, all the females should have been sent away."

“I…” Yu Wanwan paused again. What should she say? That she didn’t leave, because if she left, she wouldn’t be able to kill your Mermaid King?

No, no, after she says that, she'll definitely leave this beautiful world right now.

She resorted to her previous lame excuse: "I really did drop something."

Lan Yin laughed out loud this time: "Did you drop your things at the witch doctor's place? The witch doctor refused to return them to you, not only wanting to keep them for himself, but also sending guards to hunt you down everywhere?"

Yu Wanwan: "..."

How come this person's story is even more outrageous than hers!

Lan Yin sighed softly, "I won't have you captured, but you can't stay at the bottom of the sea. I'll have someone send you back soon."

He turned his back, intending to see if there were any mermaids nearby, so he could call them over to pass on a message or something.

Yu Wanwan's gaze fell on a large rock in the grass.

Or she could use this stone to knock the mermaid unconscious. Once he's knocked out, she could escape!

I don't know if hitting a fish with a stone in the sea will successfully stun it, but there's no other way right now, so I might as well give it a try. After all, success comes from practice!

She glanced at Lan Yin, and seeing that he wasn't paying attention to her, she quietly picked up the stone and moved closer to him.

Lan Yin lowered his eyes; of course, he could sense the little female's movements.

But he wasn't afraid. She was just a thin and weak female, and he could handle her. The reason he didn't have the guards arrest her was because he found her interesting and wanted to see what she was up to.

As she got closer and closer to Lan Yin, Yu Wanwan raised the stone above her head.

Before she could throw the stone, she suddenly felt a pain in her wrist.

She looked up and realized that the little lanternfish that had darted away had somehow returned, and it had brought back a long, flat fish that looked like a black ribbon.

The fish wrapped around Yu Wanwan's wrist, and soon Yu Wanwan felt a stinging, numb pain, like being pricked by needles.

The pain quickly traveled from her wrist to her brain, and Yu Wanwan immediately felt dizzy and lightheaded, and she no longer had the strength to lift the stone.

She loosened her grip, and the stone fell straight down, popping her bubble and hitting her head.

Lan Yin turned her head and just happened to see this scene.

He quickly caught the limp female and blew her another bubble: "Little female, are you alright? Why did you suddenly hurt yourself?"

He remembered that he hadn't said anything to hurt her, so it couldn't be that bad!

Yu Wanwan struggled to open her eyelids, uttered a single sentence, and then fainted.

Lan Yin leaned closer, and only then could she barely hear clearly—

"That fish... came to seek revenge on me."

Faced with the unconscious female, Lan Yin was torn between taking her back to the palace and leaving her here.

He thought for a moment, found a relatively high platform, blew a huge bubble to keep the seawater out, and then put Yu Wanwan on it.

Once inside the bubble, his fishtail transformed into long, straight legs, with his private parts covered by a thin film of skin, making it look like he was wearing tight pants.

Lan Yin carefully placed Yu Wanwan on the ground, applied some antidote water plants to her wrist, checked her head, and applied some simple medicine.

The little lanternfish and the black ribbonfish, who had done something wrong, watched from outside the bubble. They didn't understand why their own fish king would save this foreign female.