But when Qu Ling'er was halfway there, she realized something was wrong.

How come the player is chasing the monster's blue dot now?

She also understood that the blue dot was moving in her direction.

But why didn’t those players run away, but instead turned around and followed the monsters?

Strange things happen every year, but this year there are especially many!

Who cares! She's responsible for clearing out wild monsters, and players are out of her range.

After she kills the monster, she will go and meet up with her friends. It seems that there is no one here, so we can look in another direction.

More than ten minutes later, the monster was already at Qu Ling'er's feet.

She let Nuonuo descend directly to a place where she could see the monster clearly.

There was a huge lake below, and more than a dozen mermaids emerged from it.

I heard that mermaids' tears can turn into pearls, but I don't know if it's true.

And even if it turns into pearls, it won’t be worth much!

These mermaids are different from the mermaids in the cartoons that she transformed into.

Each one of them has an ugly appearance, sharp teeth and claws, and they roar at the sky with their fangs bared.

Qu Ling'er suddenly wanted to see if the mermaid's tears would turn into pearls.

With a sneer, he said, "No wonder we weren't wiped out. We're all stuck in the water and can't get out! It doesn't matter. If you don't come to me, I'll come and see you off. Don't forget to give me some extra money for your hard work."

As she spoke, Qu Ling'er jumped down from a height of several dozen meters.

When she was about to fall into the water, Qu Ling'er turned into a blue-ringed octopus the same size as Sanpao.

With a splash, a huge wave was raised.

The sea water was surging, and the dozen or so mermaids were almost blown into the sky by the waves.

One by one they were either falling to pieces or being swept into the waves.

Without thinking too much, Qu Ling'er stretched out five tentacles and tightly wrapped around the five mermaids exposed outside.

She kept controlling the force, causing the mermaid unbearable pain but not killing it.

The remaining three tentacles took out a few empty treasure chests and received them below.

Just waiting to be filled with pearls.

The mermaid's cry is both shrill and unbearable to listen to.

But now that Qu Ling'er is an octopus, the sounds she hears are different from those heard by humans.

To Qu Linger, the cries of these mermaids were extremely creepy.

But these mermaids just howled, and even if they shed tears, they were just ordinary tears, not pearls.

This made Qu Ling'er a little confused.

Are there any specific conditions for mermaids to secrete pearls?

Qu Ling'er called 1026 and asked it if it knew what was going on.

1026 seemed to be stumped by this question and was stuck for more than ten seconds before speaking helplessly.

"Host, do you think it's possible that this isn't a mermaid?"

"I guess...bullshit!" Qu Ling'er's tentacles stopped flying around and her whole body froze on the sea surface.

Did she make a mistake?

You have to know that the survival system here can only be used for chatting or something.

As for giving item hints, that's impossible.

Because the system memory seems to have no record of anything outside the survival world.

Qu Ling'er mistakenly thought that these creatures, which looked like both humans and fish and were different from the beautiful mermaids, were mermaids.

"Well... maybe I'm seeing things. Look at these guys, they all look ferocious and evil. If they're not kind and beautiful mermaids, then they must be man-eating mermen. If they're not mermen, then what are they?"

1026 was an emotionless machine from the beginning.

But after spending so long with Qu Ling'er, he actually developed human emotions.

For example, emotions such as helplessness, speechlessness, depression, and upset.

It feels that this host has a kind of magic, and anyone who gets close to her will easily be led astray by her.

Now even this system cannot escape the fate of being changed.

So it speaks the choking words in a steady tone.

"I'm very happy to tell you that your guess... is wrong. These are just ordinary fish. They were mutated after being possessed by the Yanar people and became like this, neither human nor fish."

Without waiting for Qu Ling'er to feel embarrassed, 1026 continued, "And don't you know that mermaids are all kind? Even though I traveled through time right after I bound to you, I still instantly understood that world, including many of the legends from the past."

"Legend has it that mermaids are from your country and are kind. Mermaids, on the other hand, are from other countries and are evil. You've got them confused."

Qu Ling'er felt even more embarrassed because she just saw the mermaids in cartoons as pretty, beautiful and kind.

If you have nothing better to do, go find out who is good and who is bad between the mermaid and the merman!

Since they are not mermaids and don't have pearls, there is no need to waste time with them. Just kill them directly.

Just as he was thinking about it, a tentacle lost its control and crushed a sea monster to death.

Then after this guy died, a tear of blood actually flowed from the corner of his eye.

1026 quickly shouted, "Host, quickly collect the blood and tears. They are more precious than pearls."

Qu Ling'er took the drop of blood and tears.

The tentacles were too big and the blood tears were too small, so Qu Ling'er almost couldn't find them.

"Mutated Water-Repellent Pearls: Tears of regret shed by the Yanar people within the sea monster. Allows humans to breathe freely underwater for an unlimited time."

Qu Linger's eyes lit up. This was much better than the water-repellent bead given by the purple gold shell.

With this, you can even live in water and never come out.

In this world of ocean survival, this thing is simply a heaven-defying existence.

With this, her friends are no longer afraid of water.

She quickly killed several other sea monsters and collected five mutant water-repellent beads.

Then she saw the remaining sea monsters rushing towards her again, and killed them all without mercy.

Soon she had 13 more water-repellent beads in her hand.

There were originally 16 sea monsters, but the other three never shed tears of blood until they died.

This made Qu Ling'er a little depressed.

Did she kill them too quickly? That's why they didn't have time to shed tears of blood.

That's definitely the case.

1026 couldn't stand it anymore and came out to explain to the Yanar people.

"These guys probably went out to sea and couldn't return, and died at sea. The ones shedding tears of blood are those who still have families and ties, so they regret going out to sea. Those who didn't shed tears are probably the ones who have no ties, so could you please stop showing off your IQ, because you're not going to have a brain in this lifetime."

Qu Ling'er almost vomited blood. How could she have no intelligence?

Why can't she grow a brain?

She was so angry that she blurted out, "You don't have a brain, and your whole family doesn't have a brain. If I don't have a brain, then what's in my head?"

1026 said calmly, "Brains! Half of your brain is filled with brains, and the other half is blank. Otherwise, why do you think we all love to crawl into your head? There's so much space! It's enough for us to roll over and do somersaults."

This time Qu Ling'er was speechless. She had once doubted this answer.

I didn't expect it to be true.

Not wanting to bother with 1026, Qu Linger released a yacht, turned back into a human, and planned to rush back in the direction where her friends came from.

I didn’t expect the boat hadn’t sailed yet!

A voice called out from behind: "Stop right there, or don't blame me for being rude."