The bottom of the shipwreck is covered with a thick layer of silt, and the fallen objects are no longer recognizable.

Xiang Wan quietly swam in through one of the openings, grabbed a handful of mud, smeared it on her face, and then swept her hair down from the top of her head to cover her entire face.

The sirens continued to knock on the ship's hull, the dull "thump-thump" sound very regular.

Xiang Wan followed the route he had taken and slowly slid over. Just as she was about to reach a hole, she suddenly poked her head out and let out a shrill scream that was quite eerie.

The siren was originally planning to swim back when it heard the sound and suddenly turned around. It saw the hairy object illuminated by the glowing insects on the cave wall and reached out its sharp claws to grab it.

It has to be said that when a Siren is on high alert, her fighting power is extraordinary. If Xiang Wan had dodged a little later, it probably wouldn't have been her hair that suffered, but her head.

In the process of dodging, Xiang Wan had already condensed ice spikes on her five fingers, and with a push off the side of the ship, she quickly attacked the Sirens.

Thus, what began as a prank escalated into a fight. For so many years, Xiang Wan had been following the Sirens, learning hunting and counter-attack techniques, but had never actually fought one. Now, this opportunity presented itself.

The siren's tail is very flexible and powerful; several times it has sent the evening flying, all thanks to the force of its tail.

The boat, which was already soaked and rotten, was completely destroyed by their actions, collapsing into almost nothing, and its original shape was no longer recognizable.

Underwater, Xiang Wan used all her martial arts skills and was quite fast, but she had a fatal weakness: she couldn't swim quickly.

The siren had already recognized her, but wasn't angry. Instead, it would occasionally seize an opportunity to give her a rude awakening, leaving her seeing stars and feeling dizzy.

At this point, Xiang Wan realized that in close combat, she might be no less capable than the Sirens. However, her speed, relying solely on her two legs to paddle, ultimately hampered her overall combat ability. If the Sirens were truly enemies, they would only fight a few times before fleeing. Xiang Wan's energy would likely be spent on pursuit and defense, eventually being slowly exhausted and dying.

The Siren truly lived up to her reputation as a mermaid respected by all the sea monsters, and she only had the opportunity to fully display her abilities on land. Xiang Wan had to admit this.

This encounter with the Sirens shattered more than half of Xiang Wan's confidence. If she wanted to complete the original owner's mission, she would have to work on her speed; otherwise, everything would become a joke.

Xiang Wan stopped first, and the siren slowly swam over, standing quietly in front of her, watching her tie up her golden hair with a piece of seaweed.

"Siren, I can't even defeat you, how am I supposed to protect the water tribe in the future?"

After tying her hair up, Xiang Wan looked at her hands, feeling somewhat forlorn.

The siren gently raised her hand, flicked her fingers to scrape the mud off her face, and murmured, "To protect, one needs strength, and one needs wisdom."

Xiang Wan looked up and saw the tenderness in the siren's eyes, and was extremely surprised.

This seemingly cold and somewhat indifferent siren actually has this side to her. Is she seeing things?

"So, why me? Why not a mermaid like you?"

Xiang Wan was certain that the original owner of this body was human. But the siren wanted a human to protect the aquatic tribe, claiming that the human had accidentally saved her life and wanted her to repay the favor, which seemed rather far-fetched.

The siren, however, seemed to have missed the point, her eyes flickering slightly. "You want to be a mermaid?"

Huh? Judging from what she's saying, could Xiang Wan possibly transform into a mermaid? That sounds a bit fantastical.

"Can mermaids transform into humans and live on land, or transform back into mermaids and live in the sea?"

Xiang Wan asked an even more fantastical question, which stunned the Sirens.

He never imagined that mermaids would want to live on land, at least he didn't. Nor did he imagine that mermaids who had been on land could return to the sea.

If that's the case, then why doesn't Ji Yuan come back?

Thinking of this, the siren's eyes gradually dimmed again. Perhaps, this was just wishful thinking to begin with.

"Siren, why won't you answer me?"

When Xiang Wan pressed for an answer, the siren shook her head and remained silent.

Since he won't speak, then Xiang Wan will speak for him.

"Siren, is what you've come here looking for related to what I've said? Of all the mermaids in the sea, I've only ever seen you. And besides the safety of your aquatic creatures, you must also be concerned with finding other mermaids, or preventing any mermaid from dying here. Over the years, you've usually been lonely, without a partner, without any of your kind. I can feel the bitterness in your heart. So, Siren, whatever you're going to do, before you do, could you leave behind a little mermaid, so that if you're not here in the future, there won't be any mermaids to keep me company?"

The siren was initially moved, his heart racing. But the last sentence shattered all his lingering expectations.

As expected of Oshina, whom he raised, her words are utterly unmoving.

The siren's face fell, and she pointed at the wrecked ship. "Keep knocking."

Xiang Wan pursed her lips, gave the siren a bright smile, turned her back on him with a dashing air, and continued dismantling the ship.

The siren stood there for a moment, a faint smile on her face.

Perhaps things weren't as bad as he originally thought.

Xiang Wan and the Sirens completely wrecked the ship, finding a lot of valuable items inside: unicorn horns, werewolf claws, sea monster eyes, hard bones from some unknown animal, and a few grayish beads that looked like the ones the Sirens had given her earlier.

The Siren tore a hole in the unicorn's horn and handed it to Xiang Wan as a horn. She blew it out in one breath, and surprisingly, the sound carried quite far. With the enhancement of her mental power, it could be heard almost from the most remote parts of the ocean floor. Of course, this was news the Siren brought back from other places after leaving this location.

Those dull, gray beads all became Xiang Wan's spoils of war, and the sirens tied them all to her hair. The werewolf's claws were embedded inside Xiang Wan's fish-skin clothes, ostensibly to prevent Ugly Eight from seeing them and trying to snatch them.

In the end, the only thing on display was a horn made from a unicorn horn.

When she emerged from the crab hole, Ugly Eight was already waiting at the entrance. His basketball-sized eyes darted between her and the Sirens before finally settling on the horn.

"You've been messing with me for so long, and this is all you're doing?"

Ugly Eight looked down on what Xiang Wan was holding. If it were in its hands, it would turn to powder with one snap of its pincers. It really didn't know what the Siren valued in it; its own treasures were far more appealing.

"Otherwise what?"

The siren made Xiang Wan pick up the horn and show it to Chou Ba in a circle.

After several rounds, Ugly Eight was almost dizzy from being turned around. He said impatiently, "Hurry up and go, don't come again next time. I want to sleep, I won't entertain you."

The ugly eight claws danced wildly, directly sweeping Xiang Wan and the siren into the water, sending them rapidly rising towards the top of the canyon.

"Ugly bastard, thank you!"

"roll!"