The public debate about the training center gained an overwhelming advantage under Yan Bai's plan.

At this time, Su Su was worried about another thing.

Two days had passed since 06 gave Su Su the spiked juice that morning. The drug had already worn off, and the blood test 06 did on him showed no signs of drug residue in his body. But he couldn't turn back into a human.

Su Su remembered that Xiang Chen had said before that after taking the mermaid medicine, he could maintain his human form stably. 06 also repeatedly confirmed that there was no conflict between the ingredients of the medicine she made and the mermaid medicine.

06Using the instruments he carried with him, he examined Su Su, hoping to find the root cause of the problem.

But after checking again and again, all of Su Su's physical signs were consistent with those of a healthy mermaid. He could even freely switch between mermaid and shark, but no matter what, he could not change into human form.

Because of this incident, Su Su's mood was obviously depressed. In order to become a human being, he had worked so hard for so long and was about to succeed. Naturally, he didn't want to fail at this moment.

Just when he was worrying about the efficacy of the medicine, an unexpected guest came on board, the high priest of the Mermaid Kingdom.

This is really a pillow sent to me when I am dozing off. The mermaid medicine was given by the high priest, and if anyone knows the most about the situation of mermaids, it must be this high priest who has lived for three hundred years.

"Maybe I can go ask her about the situation." Although Su Su didn't know why the high priest came to him, it was undoubtedly a good thing for him.

Yan Bai didn't want to see the high priest, but after hearing what Su Su said, he changed his mind and said, "Then please let her in."

After all, it was he who asked Su Su to take the medicine. If Su Su missed the opportunity for treatment and could only maintain the appearance of a mermaid for the rest of his life, Yan Bai would probably never be able to forgive himself.

The high priest got permission and boarded the ship.

This was the first time Su Su saw the high priest in human form. She was tall, with a ponytail tied behind her head, wearing a refreshing sportswear and a sun hat. She looked no different from an ordinary human woman. If you had to find a special point, it would probably be that she was extraordinarily beautiful.

The high priestess naturally did not come here specifically for Su Su. After meeting Yan Bai, she simply and directly put forward her conditions: "I hope that the Mermaid Kingdom will take back the mermaids that were rescued this time."

Yan Bai smiled noncommittally: "High Priest, you are very fast at getting news. You already know our movements before our ship even docked."

"But if you came to me for this purpose, then you will regretfully come here in vain."

The high priest was not annoyed: "Really? I think we can talk about it again."

Su Su looked back and forth between the two of them. He always felt that their attitudes toward each other were a little strange. They were neither like enemies nor like friends.

Noticing Su Su sitting in the wheelchair, the high priest gave him a friendly smile and said, "It's been a long time since we last met, Little Shark. Well, you seem to have adapted well to the mermaid medicine, and there are no signs of side effects."

"But I don't think it's good." Su Su was about to ask the high priest about this, and he couldn't help showing a distressed look when he heard it: "I have taken the mermaid medicine four times. There were no side effects the fourth time, so it should be successful. But then I took another kind of medicine to turn into a mermaid, and now... it seems that I can't turn back into a human."

"This is very special. Let me take a look." The high priest approached Su Su, squatted in front of him, and stared at him.

Looking into the eyes of the high priest, Su Su suddenly felt a force as vast as the ocean surging towards his body, but it did not make him afraid. Instead, he wanted to embrace this force, like a fish returning to the sea, with a sense of peaceful lethargy.

This feeling came and went quickly, as if he had just been distracted for a short time, and everything returned to normal. When Su Su came back to his senses, the high priestess had already stood up straight. She smiled at Su Su gently: "I should congratulate you. You are the first mermaid species to be successfully transformed with this medicine. It went more smoothly than I thought."

Su Su, however, did not think so: "Is it a success? Then why can't I become a human being?"

High Priest: "Don't worry, this is not a bad thing. In fact, this should be more worthy of congratulations than your successful transformation."

"I don't understand. I still want to become a human." Su Su didn't understand what the high priest was talking about. Why should he be congratulated even though he couldn't become a human?

"Of course, you can become like humans after you differentiate," said the high priest.

"Divide...differentiate?" Su Su was completely stupefied. Aren't only real mermaids able to differentiate?

When Su Su heard the high priest say this, the first thing that came to his mind was: If he could differentiate, then he could also sing for Qi Hanyi in treatment, and Qi Hanyi's illness could be cured!

But then he calmed down again. What must have gone wrong? He was a mermaid who had become a human with the help of drugs, but he was different from a real mermaid. How could he be differentiated again?

"I guess it has something to do with the last potion you used." The high priest said, "If possible, I would like to meet the doctor who prepared the potion and take some of the potion away. This will be very helpful for my subsequent research."

"Because there is no data to support it, I can only talk about my guess now. After you used the mermaid drug for the fourth time, the drug had no side effects. At this time, the genes in your body began to undergo permanent transformation. But when the transformation process was not stable, you took a potion that reversed the transformation to a mermaid. The two drugs did not conflict with each other. On the contrary, they merged in your body and became a new, more stable drug. This drug not only made your body take on the form of a mermaid, but also completely activated your mermaid blood, turning you into a real mermaid."

Su Su seemed to have understood, but he didn't quite believe it. He couldn't help but confirm again: "You mean, I am now a real mermaid and can differentiate like other mermaids. The reason why I can't become a human now is because I haven't differentiated yet?"

"Yes." As if seeing through his thoughts, the high priest smiled and added: "If you happen to have a partner who suffers from mental breakdown, you only need to distract him before he has an attack, and you can use your singing to cure his illness."

Su Su was stunned: "You...you know everything?"

"Of course, she was the one who facilitated your marriage with Qi Hanyi." After finding out about Su Su's problem, Yan Bai felt relieved. At the same time, he was no longer polite to the high priest: "Everything in the sea cannot be hidden from our priest. Miss Yi Qing was able to escape the marriage smoothly, and you took her place by accident. These seem to be coincidences, but in fact they were all calculated by our mermaid high priest."

Yan Bai understood this very clearly. Although he and Su Su had a good relationship now, it did not mean that he forgave the high priest for interfering and causing their plan to fail.

Yan Bai's original intention was to make Su Su realize that the high priestess was a woman with great scheming and calculations.

But after listening to him, Su Su looked at the high priest sincerely and said, "Then I have to thank you. Thank you for letting me meet Qi Hanyi. We are very happy together."

The tone was just like a sweet couple meeting the matchmaker who brought them together.

Yan Bai: “…”

"I also think I have done a good thing." The high priest adjusted his hair by his ears and smiled shyly.

Yan Bai was not used to the high priest being so pretentious despite his age, so he sneered and said in a bad tone: "People who break their promises should stop flattering themselves. It was you who promised that you would always support Dark Current, but now you have been secretly doing things several times, causing our plans to fail."

Facing Yan Bai's question, the high priest smiled and said, "Yes, I originally supported Dark Current. When Dark Current was just a small organization formed by a few mermaids and had no foothold on Freedom Island, I mediated with the mermaid royal family and helped Yan San mobilize manpower and raise funds."

"Yan San once told me that the Undercurrent he wanted to establish was an organization that could shelter homeless mermaids, rescue mermaids that were hunted by black market pirates, and provide a safe home for all mermaids who went to land and could not return to the ocean."

"Yan Sanyi did it at first, and he did it even better than I thought. But I really want to know, when did the Undercurrent start to change? Did it become an organization that takes revenge as its mission, and is willing to destroy humanity even at the cost of the entire planet?"

"I realized that Dark Current was out of control after the Qi Wu incident. An extremely outstanding human starship pilot had great goodwill towards mermaids and could even be the hope for improving the mermaids' current situation, but Dark Current killed him. In the most cruel way, it tore apart the hope of goodwill reconciliation that humans had given us."

"I don't know why Yan San has become what he is now. I also want to talk to him, but he hasn't even been near the sea for many years. He has been hiding in Freedom Island and doesn't even dare to see me. I sent him several messages, but he pretended not to receive them."

Yan Bai seemed to want to say something in rebuttal, but he opened his mouth and swallowed it back. In fact, sometimes he was also confused. Why did his adoptive father, who was also a mermaid, not go near the sea for many years since he could remember? Was he really avoiding something?

"Half a year ago, I discovered that Yan San seemed to want to use the same tactics to deal with Qi Hanyi again. Su Su happened to show up, so I facilitated this. I didn't take direct action, so I think it shouldn't be considered a violation of the agreement between me and Dark Current."

"It's not a breach of contract, but you have lost Darkstream's trust. Father said that we will no longer cooperate with the Mermaid Kingdom. We will use our own methods to achieve our goals."

"Is your goal to destroy the world?" the high priest asked bluntly. Noticing the tense atmosphere, he slowed down his tone again: "You saved the mermaids in the training center this time. I think you should be different from Yan San. What Yan San wants to do will not succeed. I came here this time in the hope that you will hand over the mermaids you saved to me, and don't let more innocent mermaids be involved in your trouble and become the bargaining chips for Yan San's ambitions."

Yan Bai remained unmoved: "I will take these mermaids back to Freedom Island and take good care of them. As for what you are worried about, I can assure you that it will not happen. I will not harm my own people, nor will I use them as pawns and put them on the scale of struggle again."

"You won't, can you guarantee that Yan San won't either? Yan Bai, when you go back this time, don't you have too many targets to protect? Be careful that in the end you won't be able to protect anyone and end up getting yourself involved." The high priest glanced at Su Su meaningfully.

"...I will have a good talk with my adoptive father." Yan Bai felt a little uncomfortable, but deep down he didn't want to believe that Yan San was really the kind of person the high priest said he was.

"Do you really know that person?" The high priest's expression darkened. "I have a feeling that Yan San is no longer the Yan San I once knew."