"What?" Upon hearing her words, Fu Li's fellow mermaids in her earpiece exclaimed excitedly, "Boss, are you sure those 1,000-plus are all single mermaids who came from the ancestral planet to find mates!"
"The female fry born from the deep-sea mermaid and the high priest. She brought over 1,000 single ancestral fish to find mates. You're the one who should make the first move. Is this how a boss behaves?"
"Exactly! As the saying goes, we should share the good times and the bad. If there are single fish, everyone should try to find one. Why should you make the first move and leave us here? That's going too far!"
"Boss, I need to take leave. I want to take all three years of annual leave and maternity leave. You have to approve it whether you approve it or not. I'll catch up with my partner and have another baby so I don't have to take maternity leave again. I might as well take it all at once."
"Boss, I need to ask for leave too. I have two years of family visit leave plus maternity leave."
"Boss, boss, I also have a year of annual leave and three years of family visit leave. I'll take them all at once. I've already sent you the application report. Sign it for me, sign it quickly!"
Fu Li gave a cold snort: "I'm sorry, everyone, my leave has been approved by the higher-ups, and they will soon issue an order to appoint the deputy submarine captain to temporarily take my place."
"If you want to take leave now, it's not my responsibility as a mermaid who's currently on leave and has no job. Once the appointments are made, go to the deputy submarine captain and ask him to approve your leave."
The deputy submarine captain immediately launched into a tirade: "Fu Li, you stinking fish, can't you have any shame? Why should you go after the deep-sea mermaids while I have to take your place here?"
"Even if I don't work, I still want to take leave, I still want to chase after deep-sea mermaids, I still want to have cute little fish babies, and I still want to take maternity leave."
The other mermaids chimed in: "Exactly! More than 1,000 adult deep-sea mermaids, what does that even mean? What fish has ever seen so many deep-sea mermaids? If I miss this opportunity, I will never forgive myself."
"Yes, yes, yes, if I miss this opportunity, I won't be able to give birth to an adorable little mermaid. Fu Li, I will never forgive you."
Damn, over 1,000 adult deep-sea mermaids, both male and female, each one beautiful and handsome, with long, white, and powerful legs. Who wouldn't want one? Who could resist?
Fu Li chuckled, giving her subordinates a fierce look of contempt: "So what if you hate me? Wait until I'm born, a cute little fish with a fish-shaped headdress, wearing a fishtail skirt, and having a pretty little tail. What else can you do but envy, be jealous, and hate me!"
"Alright, alright, I'm not talking to you anymore. I'm going to change my clothes and go ashore. You guys can take your time diving and watching the sea. When I have baby fish later, you can touch them and share in the joy!"
"Come back, come back, boss, boss, boss, boss, don't hang up, don't hang up, we can talk things over, we can talk things over."
"Boss, boss, boss..."
Amidst the shouts of the fish, Fu Li ripped off his headset, humming a little tune as he went to change his clothes.
The other mermaids greeted Fu Li's ancestors for eighteen generations with a savage air.
After the greetings, the other mermaids discovered that all their leave requests had been rejected.
No leave is allowed. You must stay at your posts and protect the safety of the mermaids and passengers of Bixu Star.
More than 1,000 handsome men and beautiful women walked towards the central city of Bixu Star. There were so many people that the men and women were dressed the same, and their accessories, sunglasses and hats were all the same. Their extravagant lifestyle attracted the attention of many mermaids and tourists.
Jiang Si led the way with You Yuan Gun Duo Yuan and A Ying at the front. You Yuan Gun Duo Yuan was wearing a hat, sunglasses, and big shorts and a floral shirt, which covered his distinctive face. With so many other beautiful women and handsome men around, he didn't attract any attention.
Jiang Si and Ling Yan stood aside waiting for the more than 1,000 people to pass by. Following behind them, she took a step and started walking. As they walked, she tugged at Ling Yan's sleeve and whispered, "Ling Yan, it seems there's one more person!"
"One more?" The Spirit Eye didn't stop walking, glancing sideways in confusion: "What, one more?"
Jiang Si slightly raised her chin, gesturing for him to look ahead: "There's one more companion spirit, making it 1202!"
His spiritual eyes instantly looked ahead, and with a slight twitch of his fingers, a wisp of green spiritual energy poured out from his fingers and rushed towards the companion spirits in front of him.
Once inside the central city of Bixu Star, there were even more mermaids, as well as tourists from other countries, beasts, and insects.
The entire central city is built on water, with hundreds of millions of mermaids living by the water. The houses are above the sea, and when you go underwater, you see fish tails and when you come up, you see human legs.
The central city is divided into several areas: the inner area, the outer area, and the middle area. The wealthy and powerful mermaids live in the inner area, those with average means live in the middle area, and those with ordinary means live in the outer area.
It takes two or three hours to travel from the outermost area to the inner area by flying vehicle. Jiang Si said when she came that there was no rush and she could take her time to explore.
Therefore... once inside the outer area of the city center, they strolled around, bought things, and looked at strange and unusual items. Since they had money to burn, they bought whatever caught their eye.
“It’s definitely not a companion spirit!” The spirit eye looked at its wisp of green spiritual energy, which was wrapped around the black hair of a girl dressed in the same beach dress, sunglasses, and sun hat as them: “Her ability is water-based, and she has black fins under her hair that covers her eyes. She is a mermaid!”
Jiang Si squinted at the back of the girl with waist-length black hair: "She didn't appear when we were on the ship, so she appeared after we disembarked and after Fu Li left."
"But then again, what is she doing following us in her own territory? Could she really mistake us for mermaids?"
Lingyan raised an eyebrow slightly: "Fu Li misunderstood that you are a mermaid, and misunderstood that we are mermaids. It is only natural that we are mermaids when a misunderstanding with mermaids appears halfway through the journey."
Jiang Si lowered her voice and shouted, "According to you, she misunderstood us as mermaids who infiltrated our group, and maybe she's here to find a mate?"
Lingyan smiled slightly: "That's possible. After all, the conch shell pearl you possess is extremely expensive. I'm wearing a robe right now, which covers my wrists."
"But... I guarantee that if I show my wrist and that conch-shaped gold bead, a lot of people will hit on me and ask for my contact information."
"That's not necessarily true..."
As soon as Jiang Si finished speaking, a beastman traveler with two cat ears and black tufts of fur at the tips of his ears blocked the Spirit Eyes' view. He said shyly, "Hello, I am a beastman, a lynx from the feline family. My name is Lynx. I would like to get to know you. Can we exchange contact information?"
The sudden conversation made Jiang Si exclaim "Wow!" and take a step back, her eyes behind her sunglasses looking at Ling Yan with great interest.
The spirit eye watched as its master distanced itself from it, and shook its head helplessly.
He shook his head, and Lynx thought he was refusing, so she quickly said, "Well, handsome, it's true that I belong to the feline family, but I'm not a cat that eats fish."
"We lynxes, also known as wolfcats, mainly live in the cold mountains and alpine grasslands of the beastmen. We are not afraid of the cold and swim and climb freely. We feed on rodents, rabbits, wild boars, and wild deer. I really don't eat fish. I just like fish, so don't worry."
Ginger shreds: "!!!!"
Hahaha!
Where did this silly little cat come from, saying it doesn't eat fish?
Judging from his gaze and the way he looked at the fish, he was practically drooling.
Lingyan's voice was gentle, like the tinkling of a spring, "Yes, a kitten that doesn't eat fish is a good kitten, but I am not a fish, you've mistaken me."
Lynx, blushing, exclaimed in surprise, "You're not a fish!"
The spirit eye hummed in agreement: "I'm not a fish, I'm a person, someone who pulls a cat's tail, tugs its ears, and plucks its fur."
Lynx's two cat ears, which had been standing upright on its head, bristled instantly. It retreated rapidly, trying to get away from the Spirit Eye. It looked as if its cat ears, tail, and fur were about to be plucked out because it was a step too late.
The spirit smiled contentedly and shook its arm: "Master, now that the kittens aren't blocking the way, let's go."
Jiang Si gave Lynx a disdainful look. He was supposed to be a wolf cat lynx, but he wasn't even as good as a big orange cat. Her big orange cat was cheap, and every day she dressed in revealing clothes, acting all high and mighty, like a queen, flirting with everyone and taking advantage of everyone.
Jiang Si linked her arm with Ling Yan's and they strolled together, ignoring Ling Yan who was secretly watching her and frequently turning back, telling him to get as far away as possible.
Most importantly, there are quite a few handsome men and beautiful women who want to chat them up. There are merfolk, orcs, insects, and so on. In short, everyone loves beauty, and it's a very prestigious thing to have a beautiful woman or handsome man as a companion.
However, the companion spirits are extremely wary of being approached, firmly believing in what the Spirit Eyes told them: those who are not of our kind must be killed. They are a new species born in the vast universe, and for their safety, they cannot let wolves into their homes, nor can they fall in love with any person, beast, or insect.
If nothing unexpected happens, a ginkgo tree can live for thousands, even tens of thousands of years. However, if its companion spirits fall in love with humans, beasts, insects, or mermaids, love will only bring them pain and separation by death.
Most importantly, the symbiotic spirit and the tree have a symbiotic relationship, the closest of relationships. If there is a person, beast, insect, or mermaid between them, it is very likely that someone will die.
When a tree dies, its companion spirit dies with it. But a tree can live on even if its companion spirit dies. Therefore, the ideal companion spirit for a free and unfettered companion spirit is its own tree or another companion spirit, and definitely not another species.
Besides Lynx, Lingyan was approached by several other people several times.
Jiang Si wasn't approached, most likely because among these handsome men and beautiful women, she was the shortest, and she was with them, wearing a big hat and sunglasses, looking like an immature baby.
It's also possible that someone who wanted to strike up a conversation with her was intimidated by someone's death stare, and the inadvertent mental pressure caused them to hesitate to approach her.
After an afternoon of sightseeing, the group of companions returned home laden with their purchases and checked into the best hotel on Bixu Star.
Jiang Si, who has plenty of money, booked the middle three floors of the hotel that extend into the sea.
The hotel has 88 floors above the water and 88 floors underwater, for a total of 176 floors.
The hotel uses the strongest materials. Apart from the load-bearing structure and main body, everything else uses the strongest one-way glass. This means that from the luxurious hotel, you can see the sea and even see mermaids swimming in it.
The mermaid descends into the sea, her hair flowing like seaweed, wearing an ethereal mermaid dress, her chest mostly covered by seaweed, and a crown made of seaweed on her head.
After eating the meal that You Yuan Gun Duo Yuan had personally prepared, Jiang Si washed up, lay in bed, nestled in Ling Yan's arms, and listened to You Yuan Gun Duo Yuan tell the story of the high priest of the merfolk.
She was more than five months pregnant with twins, much larger than a single baby. However, because Jiang Si was very strong, all the nutrients she ate and drank were absorbed by the babies, so her limbs, face, and neck did not change at all; only her belly grew larger.
Jiang Si drifted off to sleep while listening to the story. Ling Yan held her still until she was in a deep sleep, then he slowly put her down and sat up.
Agares's storytelling abruptly stopped, his gaze undisguisedly fixed on the person on the bed, yearning to hold her in his arms, to let her snuggle in his embrace, to make her see only him.
But... he messed it up. He had no position; he only had longing in his eyes but couldn't take any action, even though she was his wife and she was carrying his child.
He dared not act rashly, not even a little bit. He could not afford any risk now, any risk of losing her.
Even though Lingyan deliberately provoked him countless times with sarcastic remarks and pointed remarks, he dared not get angry or refute. One reason was that he had no reason to refute, and another reason was that his little wife was like a cloud in the sky or a shooting star in the sea of stars, out of his reach. He only knew one part of her, not the other two or three parts!
Lingyan lifted the blanket covering Jiang Si's legs, revealing her calves.
The Spirit Eye beckoned to Agares with a finger and said in a low voice, "When a pregnant woman is more than five months pregnant, her legs and feet are prone to swelling. Even if she has healing-type mental power, she cannot cure these problems completely."
"Use some of your spiritual energy to help reduce the swelling in her legs and feet, and also give the children some nourishment. Of course, if you don't want to..."
"I do!" Agares responded softly before he could finish speaking, then focused his mental energy and gently placed his hand on Jiang Si's calf.
Her calves and feet weren't swollen yet, at most they were a little sore from walking too much, but Agareth's mental energy was nourishing for her, and the two babies in her belly liked it too.
The creature, sensing his spiritual power, began to tumble inside Jiang Si's stomach, its tumbling behaving like someone who had obtained a rare and precious toy, jumping around happily.
Lingyan sat on the edge of the bed, looking at him and scrutinizing him. Her eyes were bright and dark, deep and shallow, but she didn't say anything or ask anything.
Agares only had eyes for his little wife. After channeling his spiritual energy into her, he condensed several large spiritual energy orbs and placed them in front of the Spirit Eye, speaking with utmost sincerity: "Your Excellency, please put these spiritual energy orbs away. They can replenish her whenever she is tired."
Each spirit orb was the size of a basketball, white, with pure spirit energy and powerful energy. A glint flashed in his spiritual eye; he was not beyond redemption, but he was still far from being worthy of his master.
The Spirit Eye withdrew its spiritual power and waved its hand, saying, "Go to the outer room; we don't need you here anymore."
Imperial Marshal Agares dared not be angry or speak out, and, enduring this humiliation, went to the outer room to sleep on the sofa.
In the dead of night, Jiang Si was surprised by the shouts and found that her spiritual eye had turned into a tree lying next to her. The tree was not big, about the same length as the bed.
She didn't wake him, but lifted the covers, got out of bed, and went outside. Ah Ying sneakily approached her: "Master, Master, that mermaid you showed me was definitely not a good person. She didn't sleep in the middle of the night, but came over and lifted our covers to invite us companion spirits to sneak off to bars and pick up guys!"
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