"Chen Peng? What are you doing out here?" Nalan Zhao immediately pulled Shen Zhiyi into his arms, preventing her from moving to the side.
Chen Peng scratched his head. "I heard someone calling me, so I came out to see what was going on."
“It told me that it was waiting for me on the rocks ahead and that it needed me to go and check on something.”
Nalan Zhao frowned deeply.
Then, the singing started again.
However, this time the singing was different from the previous one; the previous singing sounded like she was murmuring something.
This time, the song seemed to carry a seductive hook, drawing people's attention and making them want to go towards the source of the song.
Shen Zhiyi's struggles intensified.
"Nalan Zhao! Let me go!" Shen Zhiyi looked up and glared at Nalan Zhao.
Nalan Zhao gritted his teeth and looked at the anxious Black Wolf, "Go to the ship's warehouse and get the rope."
Black Wolf nodded and immediately rushed to the warehouse in the ship's cabin, grabbing the rope.
After taking the rope, Nalan Zhao tied Shen Zhiyi directly to the chair.
Little Fish and Little White had received Nalan Zhao's hint early on, and the two beasts followed Chen Peng, preventing him from heading towards the sea.
"Xiaobai, I'm just going to take a look, I'll be right back." Chen Peng was quite helpless about Xiaobai's persistence.
Xiaobai is usually quite obedient, so why is he constantly stopping him today? Is it because he's not good enough to Xiaobai?
"Awoooooo!" Human! Wake up! There's the sea in front of you, and you can't swim. You'll drown if you go in!
Little White was almost frantic. What was wrong with its human? As soon as it woke up, it said it wanted to go to the sea to see what was going on, saying that someone was waiting for it there.
What kind of people could its human possibly know here? And they're still in the ocean? Even a fool could tell this isn't right!
After tying up Shen Zhiyi, Nalan Zhao used the remaining rope to tie up Chen Peng.
When Chen Peng saw that Nalan Zhao was going to tie him up, he was stunned for a moment, not understanding why he was doing that. He struggled a couple of times, but when he found that he couldn't break free, he obediently let Nalan Zhao tie him up.
Xiao Bai was exhausted and lay down next to Chen Peng, looking utterly dejected.
"Nalan Zhao! You've got some nerve! You even dared to tie me up!" Shen Zhiyi was furious. She just went down to check on the gentle blue whale; it wasn't like she was never going back.
The singing continued, growing increasingly urgent, as if urging them to hurry up.
Shen Zhiyi's head was throbbing. The song told her that if she didn't go down into the sea soon, she would never see that gentle blue whale again.
"Nalan Zhao, let me go!"
Nalan Zhao frowned; this singing...
After thinking for a moment, Nalan Zhao returned to his cabin, found something, and took it to the deck.
Standing in front of Shen Zhiyi, seeing her glaring at him with displeasure, Nalan Zhao steeled himself, opened a small bottle, and shook it under Shen Zhiyi's nose.
"What are you doing?" Shen Zhiyi had just finished speaking when she felt a wave of dizziness and slowly fell into a deep sleep.
Seeing this, Nalan Zhao breathed a sigh of relief.
Then he turned to look at Chen Peng, who was tied to a pillar, and went over to shake the small bottle under Chen Peng's nose.
Chen Peng stopped struggling and fell into a deep sleep.
Nalan Zhao sighed, untied the ropes binding the two men, and sent them back to their respective rooms.
He instructed Xiaobai and Xiaoyugan to stay in Chen Peng's room and come to wake him up as soon as he woke up again.
He himself stayed by Shen Zhiyi's side.
Before long, the source of the singing realized that the people on the boat were not moving and the singing was not attracting anyone, so they stopped.
Nalan Zhao also noticed this and looked out through the small window in the room, but due to the limited distance, he couldn't see anything and had to give up.
"Awooo?" The black wolf patted Nalan Zhao with its paw.
Nalan Zhao lowered his head.
"Ouch." Why did the zookeeper turn into that? She and Chen Peng were both affected, why weren't you affected?
This is a point that Black Wolf cannot understand.
Nalan Zhao fell silent; he wasn't really sure why he wasn't affected by the singing.
Could it be because he wasn't originally involved?
“The source of that song must be the Sirens at sea,” Nalan Zhao answered Black Wolf’s first question.
"The song of the sirens at sea will attract their prey and make them lose their senses, following the song without a care."
"If you are influenced by the singing, you will end up like them just now."
Nalan Zhao looked at the unconscious Shen Zhiyi with some worry.
The sirens at sea have their eyes on Shen Zhiyi and Chen Peng.
If the sirens stop affecting them with their songs after they pass this area, that's fine. But if they keep following the ship, then things will get complicated.
Being targeted by sirens at sea is a very troublesome thing.
Nalan Zhao once read in the library on Xianyun Island that there were several kinds of sirens at sea.
There are kind-hearted sirens at sea who sing at night to guide lost ships back to the right path.
Some sea sirens sing at night, only to devour their prey.
Some, however, simply find life at sea too long and are bored, so they want to tease their prey with their songs.
Clearly, the sea sirens targeting them are the second type.
Time quickly passed and it was already morning.
Shen Zhiyi sat up in bed, still half asleep.
She rubbed her temples, feeling a terrible ache in her head, as if she'd been hit.
At that moment, she caught a glimpse of Nalan Zhao resting with his eyes closed to the side.
"Ah Zhao? What are you doing in my room? Weren't you on watch on the deck?"
Nalan Zhao opened his eyes, which were a little dry. He blinked and asked, "Sister, don't you remember?"
Shen Zhiyi was stunned. What happened last night?
Black Wolf sighed softly and lay down to doze off.
As a wolf, it's best not to interfere in the affairs of these two people.
Nalan Zhao pursed his lips. "Last night, we were targeted by the Sirens at sea."
"?" Shen Zhiyi's eyes widened.
Sea sirens? What are those?
Nalan Zhao briefly explained to Shen Zhiyi what the Sirens at sea were.
She added, "Sister, last night you were influenced by the singing and said you wanted to go to the bottom of the sea to see the blue whale."
At this point, he pursed his lips, glanced cautiously at Shen Zhiyi, and continued, "I said the blue whale is already dead, right? You told me to shut up and say the blue whale isn't dead, that you should go see it."
"..." Shen Zhiyi fell silent. Was she really that stupid when she was bewitched by the song of the sirens at sea?
"You weren't affected?" Shen Zhiyi suddenly realized this crucial question. "What about Chen Peng?"
"It's probably because I'm not a player that I wasn't affected. Chen Peng was affected yesterday too. We sent him back to his room last night. Xiaoyugan and Xiaobai are watching over him."
Nalan Zhao answered obediently.
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