When Torurata felt she couldn't take it anymore, she jumped into the sea. As soon as Torurata entered the sea, she filled up like a balloon, instantly becoming full. It was truly amazing.
Zuo Qingya exclaimed, "Wow, how did you do that? It's like a big balloon that deflates when it gets ashore, but fills up again as soon as it jumps into the sea."
Torurata chuckled, "Hehe... I don't know why either. None of the other tribesmen are like me. When they come ashore, their fish tails turn into legs."
"Then in their eyes, you must be an oddball."
Torurata nodded. "Yes, I'm an oddball in their eyes. It's like everyone else hasn't grown bigger, but I have, and I can eat a lot. I've eaten most of the food."
Zuo Qingya saw a coconut tree and, as usual, put the coconut tree tissue on the product shelf. It was a positively mutated plant, and the coconut could be drunk. However, the taste was different from the last one; it was lemon-flavored.
Zuo Qingya thought the lemon flavor would be very sour, so she handed it to Torulata.
"Drink up! It's delicious."
Torurata took the coconut and started drinking it. As soon as it entered his mouth, he made a face like he was constipated, and Zuo Qingya felt sour just looking at him.
"How could you be so mean? Giving me this stuff to drink."
"Oh dear, I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to!"
"What? You didn't do it on purpose? I think you did it on purpose."
"Fine, fine, I did it on purpose."
"No, you have to have a sip too."
"Uh??? Can't I not drink it?"
Torurata shook his head: "No."
"Okay! Just one sip." Zuo Qingya took a small sip, and immediately, the expression on her face became uncontrollable.
"Torulata, can you shrink?"
Torurata shook his head. "No."
"Oh, I see! That's really a pity!"
"What's a pity?"
"It's a pity you can't shrink! If you could shrink, I would put you in a jar and take you to my place so you can meet my friend. I think she might really like you."
"Really? That's a real shame. But there's another way to get me out of here."
"What method?"
"If you make a contract with me, you can take me out of here."
"Why do we need a contract? Can't we just put you in a big jar and take you with us?"
"You've seen it yourself, I can't transform. My body is so big, how are you going to take me out?"
Zuo Qingya thought about it and said, "That seems to be true. How about I put you in my space? I have water in my space."
Torurata's eyes lit up immediately. "Really?"
Zuo Qingya nodded, "Really."
"Let's give it a try first."
Zuo Qingya tried to put Torulata into her own space, but only she could go in; Torulata couldn't.
Zuo Qingya was a little embarrassed. "I'm sorry! Torulata can't put you into my space."
Torurata shook his head. "It's okay, I also have a space, but my space can only hold the skin I shed."
"The skin you shed?"
Torurata nodded. "That's right."
“I shed my skin every hundred years, but I shed several more skins after the spiritual energy revival.”
Zuo Qingya remembered a novel, but she couldn't remember the name. It was about mermaids shedding their skin, which was called something like cloud gauze, and could be made into clothes.
Zuo Qingya looked at Torulata and could imagine what her shed skin would look like just by looking at the color of her tail. It must be very beautiful!
Zuo Qingya grinned and began to have designs on Torulatapi.
"Um, Torurata, we're good friends, right?"
Seeing Zuo Qingya's shifty-eyed look, Torulata knew that nothing good was coming.
Zuo Qingya said ingratiatingly, "Torulata, could you give me one or two pieces of your shed skin?"
Torurata shook his head vigorously. "No, the scales are fine, but the skin won't do."
Why?
"Because we mermaids shed our skin to make clothes for our weddings."
"Uh??? Okay!"
Zuo Qingya never expected that this was the reason.
"Alright then! I won't force you."
"But I'm curious about where your mermaid tribe lives." I wonder if it's the same as the mermaid settlement in my mission.
Zuo Qingya nodded, "Of course, I'll take you to see it."
Looking at the archway before me, I wondered, "Is this the dwelling place of the mermaid clan?"
Torurata nodded. "Yes."
A mermaid was taken aback when she saw Torurata's enormous body and swam over.
"Hey, isn't this our mermaid monster? What brings you back now? Do you want to come in again?"
"Look at you, you're so old now, can you please stop coming in and ruining our little place? Do you remember what happened last time?"
"You came back and completely destroyed our archway. Do you want to do it again?"
Torurata felt wronged. "I'm sorry, Jiajia, I didn't mean to."
"I know you didn't do it on purpose. You had no choice but to grow bigger. You're different from us now. You're so big and we're so small. What if you accidentally flatten us?"
Jiajia looked at Zuo Qingya next to Torulata and said, "Is the one next to you a third-generation mermaid? You two are really pathetic, you should be together."
Jiajia sighed and continued, "I know it's not easy for you either, so please don't come here anymore. It's better for everyone that way."
Torurata nodded. "I just came to take a look, that's all. I'm leaving now."
"Fine, then hurry up and leave. When they see you, they'll ridicule you again."
"Okay! We're leaving, bye-bye."
After watching Zuo Qingya and the others leave, Jiajiaer stood there for a while before going back as well.
Torurata swam ahead, lost in her grief, completely ignoring Zuo Qingya. With a flick of her tail, Zuo Qingya felt herself being carried in the direction the tail had flicked.
"Hey, hey, hey... Torurata, even if you're sad, think about me."
Torurata is still immersed in grief.
"Torulata, either you hold me, or you don't walk and I'll swim ahead of you, okay? It's so frustrating. Look at your big tail, it keeps swishing me this way and that way. It's so frustrating."
Torurata stopped, saw Zuo Qingya's appearance, and immediately laughed, no longer sad.
"Okay, I'm sorry, I'll pick you up now and let's go!"
Not long after Zuo Qingya and the others left, two more mermaids arrived, seemingly looking for something.
"Why haven't I seen it?"
"They've probably already left!"
"It's such a pity for this child. I don't know how it happened, but she's the only mermaid who grew up."
"Sigh, she's always been different from others. When we come ashore, our tails turn into legs. But when she comes ashore, it's like a punctured balloon; she deflates instantly."
"The clan elders said that she is very likely due to a genetic mutation, which is why she looks like this now."
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