Chapter 08 Chapter 8

Through the conversation between Wen Ming and the strange man, Mu Mu learned that the man's name was Xiao Jun, and he was Wen Ming's friend.

Mu Mu didn't like Xiao Jun.

Because when Wen Ming rescued it from the curtain, Xiao Jun laughed non-stop:

"Don't rush to clean it up, take a short video and upload it, it will definitely be selected into the list of 'Top Ten Mermaids Who Destroy People'! It's so funny!"

His pair of fangs when he laughed hurt the little mermaid's self-esteem.

Mu Mu was so embarrassed and angry that as soon as Wen Ming untied the curtain, he jumped into the mermaid pool and hid under the water.

Wen Ming glanced at him with dissatisfaction.

"Ahem!"

Xiao Jun put away his smile and said seriously, "Be more lively. Your house is finally not as silent as a haunted house."

"Ding ding!" The housekeeper also squeezed into the mermaid room, "The curtains need to be replaced. The purchase function is turned on."

The machine projected on the wall: "Please select a new curtain style."

The dazzling patterns scrolled and played.

Xiao Jun leaned against the projection with his arms folded: "In fact, you can skip this step. Wen Ming will only choose black, white and gray without patterns..."

Suddenly, a small head appeared on the water surface for a moment, and then disappeared very quickly.

"?"

Xiao Jun drew on the projection interface, and the pattern returned to the previous one.

The little mermaid came out again...

Xiao Jun found the spring of the "toy" and moved it back and forth.

The mermaid was more sensitive than the projection interface, appearing for a while and hiding for a while.

"Hhh, this is so funny!" Xiao Jun laughed, his fangs were eye-catching, "Wen Ming, look, the mermaid..."

"Ding! The style is selected, the purchase is complete."

Xiao Jun looked at Wen Ming in surprise and clicked the "Confirm" button: "Did you click the wrong one?"

Wen Ming continued to operate without hesitation.

"I was just teasing the mermaid, I didn't want you to choose."

Xiao Jun pointed at the curtains selected by Wen Ming: "This doesn't match the style of your home at all!"

The curtains with a sea blue background and shell patterns... will become the only bright color in this home.

After Wen Ming completed the operation, he did not close the projection interface, but clicked on the large picture of the blue curtains and placed it on the wall.

Mu Mu was also coaxed out by the picture, with his chin resting on the pool wall, staring at the projection.

He looked at the picture, and Wen Ming looked at him.

Xiao Jun seemed to have seen a ghost story. His body tilted and he staggered against the wall:

"Are you... in a good mood today?"

Wen Ming lowered his eyes and cleaned up the mess: "How can I be in a good mood when it's destroying the house?"

Xiao Jun laughed meaningfully and shrugged:

"You can't see your own expression, so of course you don't know how soft the corners of your mouth are now."

Xiao Jun was amazed: "From comrades-in-arms to friends, it's been at least ten years, and I just found that you can have such open emotions..."

"What do you want to talk to me about?"

Xiao Jun remembered the purpose of this trip: "There is a mermaid competition this weekend, and you happen to have a mermaid, let's go together?"

Wen Ming didn't even raise his head: "Not interested."

"You should think about it, I'm afraid that you won't participate in social activities anymore, and you'll rot at home and get rotten!" "

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So far, Xiao Jun has never succeeded in persuading Wen Ming.

After Wen Ming's spiritual sea was damaged, it was like a well whose depth could not be explored.

Throwing a stone into it, there was no sound of falling into the water, nor was there a sound of hitting the ground. It was swallowed up by the darkness and disappeared without a trace.

Others' reply of "not interested" might be an excuse, but Wen Ming meant "not interested" literally.

Xiao Jun was a little disappointed.

"Gu..."

Mu Mu stared at Wen Ming who was tidying up the curtains, and the low sound in his throat seemed to say "I'm sorry".

The mischievous little mermaid made a mess of the house, and Wen Ming tolerated his peaceful life being turned upside down.

At the bottom of the well, ripples may have appeared...

Xiao Jun straightened his slack shoulders again: "What if the merman in your family likes the mermaid competition?

You are not sociable, but you can't stop mermaids from making friends!"

He switched the projection content to the promotional video of the mermaid competition.

'Want to exchange experiences in raising mermaids? Want to show the unique skills of mermaids? The mermaid competition is the best platform! '

The video edited a lot of exciting clips of mermaids competing together.

Wen Ming and Mu Mu didn't react at all.

Xiao Jun was worried: Is it useless to start with mermaids?

'There is no threshold for registration. Interstellar humans are welcome to participate. Participating will get a mermaid toy souvenir.

The mermaid family that wins the first place in the competition will receive a bonus of 100,000 star coins! '

"Ah!" Mu Mu suddenly rolled over in the water excitedly.

There's hope!

Xiao Jun's eyes lit up and he encouraged her, "Little mermaid, you really want to go, right? You can get toys."

"Ah!" There's a prize, so we must go and compete for first place!

"See Wen Ming, why don't you take the mermaids with you ?"

"Ah!" Let's go, Master, it's time to improve our lives!

Wen Ming sighed helplessly, "In the Mermaid Center?"

"Yes!" Xiao Jun clenched his fists and showed a victory gesture.

Mu Mu also waved his little fists, eager to try.

"This mermaid is really interesting." Xiao Jun said with a smile, "I said a sentence, and it answered it in a very serious manner, acting as if it could understand..."

Wen Ming did not comment: "Mu Mu is very smart. On the day I got home, it remembered its new name after only hearing it a few times."

"Really? Even the advanced mermaids cultivated in the Mermaid Center need more than three days of special training before they can remember their names."

Xiao Jun called out half-doubtfully: "Mumu? Mumu!"

Mumu didn't even spare a glance for him.

Wen Ming: "It only responds to me."

"Puff!" Xiao Jun waved his hands, "You think too much. Mermaids are creatures that treat everyone the same as long as you feed them. Let me show you how to do it--"

He scooped some fish food from the mermaid bowl, approached the mermaid pond, and lowered his voice:

"Mumu, come and eat!"

The mermaid still didn't respond.

When Xiao Jun was only an arm's length away from him, it suddenly turned its face and bared its teeth and rushed over...

"So damn fierce!" Xiao Jun jumped in shock.

"It's scaring you." Wen Ming pointed out, taking the mermaid bowl from him, "But if you shake off the fish food, it will bite you."

Xiao Jun shyly walked away from the mermaid pool: "It's much more individualistic than my mermaids."

He left a mermaid competition flyer: "It has the specific time and competition system. See you then. My daughter's kindergarten is about to finish school, so I'm leaving first!"

Mu Mu leaned half of her body against the pool, raised her hand, and said goodbye to him.

"Yeah, yeah!"

Xiao Jun waved and walked out of the mermaid room. After a few seconds, he suddenly stepped back and looked at the mermaid pool in horror -

just like a normal mermaid, Mu Mu stared blankly at the air with lifeless eyes.

Wen Ming: "Anything else?"

"...No."

Xiao Jun rubbed his eyes and left, muttering to himself, "I'm hallucinating. Am I too tired recently..."

...

At night, a sneaky figure floated up in the mermaid pond.

It held its breath and made sure that there was no movement outside the door before it reached for the flyer.

For the prize money, you have to understand the competition system in advance and be well prepared!

With the light of the two blue moons outside the window, Mu Mu took a closer look -

"..."

By the way, it can't read.

Mu Mu had to put the flyer back to its original place, rolled over in front of the pool to practice, and comforted himself:

It doesn't matter, its skills must be no less than other mermaids! What's more...

Mu Mu curled up and touched the smooth fish tail.

The scar repair ointment brought a strong recovery effect, the damaged scales fell off, and new scales grew.

"The tail is healed!" Mu Mu stretched his body happily, "This way I can change my form..."

Dark waves rippled in the water, and the mermaid's body began to undergo amazing changes...

The body lengthened, and the scales of the tail became thicker and harder, forming a shield-like protection.

Webbed fingers, and the originally blunt nails instantly grew to more than ten centimeters, with sharp tips and a cold silver light on the edges.

It is the sharpest weapon of the deep-sea hunter.

After leaving the ocean, it hid its hunting form, and it was unable to change its form while its tail was injured.

It has not been used for a long time, and the movement of flexing and extending its claws is a little stiff.

Mu Mu looked around, and the eyes of the hunting form were covered with a layer of film, which greatly improved its vision. Even in the dark, it can see the contents of the mermaid competition flyer.

"Master, don't worry. I'm really useful!"

"Ding ding."

The housekeeper detected an unusual flow in the pool and entered the mermaid room. The camera scanned left and right.

The blue mermaid returned to normal, breathing evenly, and sleeping with a harmless face.

The housekeeper's green indicator light flashed: "Ding ding, nothing abnormal."

Mu Mu, who pretended to be asleep, yawned and soon fell asleep, muttering in his sleep:

"One hundred thousand star coins, hehe, master, you can spend as much as you want. Follow me and you don't have to live a hard life anymore..."

*

"Professor Yin, the registration list for the mermaid competition has been sent to your optical computer."

"Received, thank you for your hard work."

The man called "Professor" was wearing a white coat and smiled gently at his subordinates on the other side of the optical computer virtual screen.

After hanging up the call, the smile seemed to be just an illusion, and Professor Yin became expressionless.

He didn't care about the list, he just glanced at it casually and continued with his work.

"Hmm?"

He opened the light computer screen again and clicked on one of the registration pictures -

a blue mermaid chewing on a fish stem, as if frightened by the flash of a camera, with eyes wide open.

A well-fed, spiritual mermaid.

Professor Yin couldn't connect it with the mermaid in his memory who was thin, dull, and had a low sense of existence...

"No. 55?"

This mermaid's performance in various assessments was extremely mediocre. It was not worth Professor Yin's time to waste on it, and it had been abandoned by the laboratory.

Professor Yin shifted his attention and focused on the ancient book at hand.

The ancient book was a book written by ancient humans before the interstellar era, and the characters used had long been lost.

Professor Yin's research has so far successfully deciphered part of the content:

'Records of the mysterious species from the deep sea - mermaids.

A ferocious underwater hunter with claws that can cut through iron like mud, and a fighting ability far beyond that of insects, beastmen and other fighting species.

They...'

Professor Yin once thought that No. 55 was a mermaid.

After all, No. 55 was the only one in the laboratory that was caught from the Ocean Star, and ordinary mermaids do not have the ability to survive independently in the sea.

But...

Professor Yin's eyes were once again locked on No. 55 displayed on the optical computer screen.

Fierce underwater hunters...?

He shook his head: "It should be just ordinary mermaids that were illegally abandoned."

Time passed bit by bit, and the decryption work finally made some progress:

'...They have wisdom and can disguise themselves as mermaids.

Therefore, the biggest difference between mermaids and mermen is not their appearance, but whether they yearn for the ocean and whether they have the instinct to prey on living things. '

"Pretend, pretend." Professor Yin paused for each word, his eyes deep.

Perhaps a mermaid deceived everyone in the laboratory by looking like a mermaid...

When he called his subordinates on the optical computer, he once again became the gentle and polite Professor Yin:

"In order to match the style of the underwater landscape, put some live fish in the aquarium of the mermaid competition."

"Okay, professor."

*

"Don't eat anything randomly, do you hear me?" Wen Ming reminded him countless times.

Mu Mu lowered his head and stared at the aquarium, his mind had already flown away to who knows where...

"Mu Mu." Wen Ming's voice cooled down.

Mu Mu quickly withdrew his eyes from the "Mermaid Holy Land", and the whole mermaid stood at attention in the water.

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"You can't eat the stones and water plants in the water tank." Wen Ming shook the snack bag in his hand, "Come to me for snacks when you're hungry."

Mu Mu, who had a history of eating random things, said:

"Ah!" I won't eat random things!

The little mermaid's face was full of excitement, her fins trembled, and she couldn't wait to sink into the aquarium.

Wen Ming sighed: "Go play."

"Plop!" Only joyful splashes of water were left on the water surface.

The mermaid competition is about to begin...