After enduring the scorching sun, the rest of the day began to darken as the sun dipped in the west. Yu Chen left, and it was unclear what he was doing. The courtyard door was locked, and Mu Mu sat on the bank, playing with the little koi in the pond with his tail.
At this moment, he heard a rustling sound coming from the wall. A furry little head poked out and saw Mu Mu in the yard, his eyes widened in surprise.
Mu Miao was also surprised.
Why is there a human cub here?
Yu Kai looked around the yard, but didn't see Yu Chen. He called out to Mu Miao, "Hey, Mermaid, isn't Uncle Yu Chen home?"
He didn't expect Mu Mu to answer him. He put most of his body into the yard and climbed in nimbly.
Mu Miao answered him: "Yu Chen just went out and is not at home now. If you need to see him, you have to wait a while."
Yu Kai was surprised, his young face full of excitement, and he skipped over to Mu Mu's side, "Wow! You can speak human language!"
Mu Miao tilted his head. Isn’t it normal that he can speak?
Mermaids' vocal cords are more advanced than humans' and can produce many sound frequencies that humans cannot. Human language is very simple for mermaids.
Yu Kai approached Mu Mu fearlessly, looking at his fish tail soaking in the pool, and he wanted to touch it.
He looked at Mu Mu in amazement and kept chattering, "Can you really live under the sea? How do you breathe? Won't you choke on the water and drown?"
"You're so beautiful. You have green eyes. Are you wearing colored contact lenses? I heard that city people who love to look pretty wear them."
"Why are you with Uncle Yu Chen? Are you his fish? Uncle Yu Chen seems to have the habit of raising fish. He can raise fish. Look, all the fish in this pond are raised by him, and they are fat and plump."
“…”
The child's thoughts were wild and imaginative. Mu Mu listened to his various strange questions and answered him patiently and slowly, "...I am a fish. Fish will not drown in water. Yu Chen raised me as a fish because I can help him catch other fish. I am a fish that can catch fish..."
Yu Kai: “…Huh?”
He was almost confused by Mu Mu's words.
Mu Mu was extremely bored as a fish, and Yu Kai's arrival just happened to help him cheer him up. Therefore, no matter how outrageous the questions Yu Kai asked were, Mu Mu would answer them seriously.
As for the danger, Mu Miao looked at Yu Kai, who was not even as tall as his tail, and thought maliciously that he could probably whip the human cub with one tail and make it cry for a long time.
Yu Kai didn't know that he had become a low-risk human here with Mu Mu, and chatted with Mu Mu with great interest.
His parents are both gone, and his grandparents are busy making a living and have no time to take care of him, so he always plays around outside with other children. But when his friends are picked up by their parents, Yu Kai is alone again.
Seeing that it was getting late, Yu Kai knew it was time to go home. He leaned on Mu Mu's arm reluctantly, "Can I come see you again tomorrow? Can you help me talk to Uncle Yu Chen and ask him not to chase me away?"
Suddenly, a cold voice came from behind, "What do you want to tell me?"
Mu Miao turned around and saw the man, her eyebrows suddenly curved, "Yu Chen, you're back."
His smile was pure and clean, and his eyes were full of joy for the person who had returned from outside, just like a little wife waiting for her husband to come home, her whole heart devoted to her husband.
Yu Chen's eyes darkened, and he ignored Yu Kai's look as if he had seen a ghost, walked straight to Mu Mu, bent down, picked him up, and walked to the stone chair to sit down.
Out of the water, Mumu's blue tail was fully revealed, and Yukai let out a small "Wow!"
Mu Miao was already used to being held, so she naturally nestled in Yu Chen's arms and stretched out her hand to reach the teacup on the table.
Yu Chen took it for him and put it in his hand. Mu Mu took the teacup and took a sip. He really liked the fragrance of the tea.
Yu Chen gently lifted his eyelids and glanced at Yu Kai, "Does your grandfather know that you came to my place without permission?"
Yu Kai looked much more awkward in front of Yu Chen, his hands clenched nervously, "He doesn't know, Grandpa went to find a house for those outsiders, Grandma is taking a nap at home, I... I just wanted to come and see Brother Mu Miao."
"I've never seen a mermaid before."
Yu Chen glanced at Mu Miao and Yu Kai, and said in a neutral tone, "You even know their names. It seems that you two got along very well this afternoon."
Mu Mu didn't see the hidden emotion in his words, thinking it was just a normal joke. He raised his chin proudly, "Yeah! I'm very popular with children."
Yu Chen glanced at Yu Kai, then returned his gaze to Mu Mu, calmly placing his hand on his lower abdomen. "Really? It seems you're quite lucky with children."
Mu Miao was unaware of the danger and thought that Yu Chen envied his talent. After all, Yu Kai was closer to him than his uncle Yu Chen.
He patted the back of Yu Chen's hand soothingly and offered him some thoughtful advice, "Smile once in a while, don't always have a stern face, otherwise the children will definitely be scared of you. You need to be more gentle."
But Yu Chen still didn't take any actual action, so Mu Mu simply put down the teacup and did it himself.
He held Yu Chen's face with both hands, pressed his thumb on the corner of Yu Chen's lips, lifted it up, and a smile was born.
Mu Miao's eyes curved into beautiful crescent shapes. He turned to the stunned Yu Kai and said, "Look, your uncle looks really good when he smiles, doesn't he?"
Yu Kai's expression froze. Yu Chen was indeed good-looking, and even seemed unattainable because of his temperament.
But children would not like this kind of adult. Yu Chen's majesty, which was intimidating without him getting angry, was once an indelible shadow of Yu Kai's childhood.
Now, Yu Chen was forced to smile by Mu Miao, but instead of making Yu Kai feel close to him, he became even more scared.
But meeting Mu Mu's expectant eyes, Yu Kai couldn't bear to dampen his enthusiasm. Children can't lie, so he pouted and said, "I, I heard grandma calling me to eat. Goodbye, uncle and brother!"
After he said that, he rushed straight towards the gate, as if there was a ghost chasing him.
Yu Chen suddenly said, "Stop."
Yu Kai's body stiffened, and he stopped at the gate of the yard, looking at Yu Chen anxiously.
Yu Chen grabbed Mu Mu's hand that was messing with his face. Mu Mu's wrists were slender, and Yu Chen could completely grab both of his wrists with one hand.
Yu Chen tapped the table with his other hand, "You're addressing him wrongly. Call him Uncle Mu Mu, not Brother. Also, don't mention Mu Mu to anyone, okay?"
Yu Kai didn't expect that Yu Chen called him because of these two things. He was very surprised for a moment, "I know, uncle."
Mu Miao liked Yu Kai very much and waved to him, "Welcome to play again next time."
After saying that, he remembered that this was not his home, so he turned to Yu Chen and asked, "Is it okay?"
Yu Chen: “…Yeah.”
With Yu Chen's permission, Yu Kai was overjoyed, "Then I'll come to play with you tomorrow! Brother... Goodbye, little uncle!"
Yu Kai left happily. Mu Mu patted Yu Chen's leg with his tail. He found that this man liked to hug him, just like he liked to hug his rabbit doll when he slept.
Mu Miao looked at the already dark sky and asked, "Yu Chen, aren't you going to eat?"
Yu Chen: "Are you hungry?"
He was about to pick up the knife to draw blood when Mu Miao stopped him and explained anxiously, "I'm not hungry! I ate a lot at noon. I don't need your blood for the next two days. Put down the knife quickly."
Seeing Yu Chen put down the knife, Mu Miao breathed a sigh of relief.
Mu Mu's eyes showed worry: "I heard that humans need to eat three meals a day. You didn't eat lunch, but you can't skip dinner too. It's not good for your health."
Yu Chen was stunned for a moment. Eat?
Meeting Mu Mu's urging eyes, Yu Chen felt for the first time that he was also a human being and could get hungry.
Seeing that he didn't move, Mu Miao reached out and pushed him again, "Don't you know how to cook? What should I do? I'm not very good at it either... How about you go to Yu Kai's house to eat?"
Mu Mu and his brothers and sisters often visited each other and had meals together. He was raised by his brothers.
Yu Chen finally got up, put Mu Mu back into the pool, and returned to the house.
Mu Mu placed his hands on the shore, resting his chin on them, staring at Yu Chen's back. At this moment, 001 reappeared: [Good morning, young master!]
Mu Miao looked at the sunset glow, unable to express himself in words, […Good morning.]
[Alarm—Alarm—High-risk NPC detected, please leave this area immediately. Beep—NPC is approaching, 10 meters... 7 meters... 5 meters...]
"What are you daydreaming about?" Yu Chen brought over a plate of fruit and found that Mu Mu was staring blankly into space, with a confused look in her beautiful big eyes.
Mu Miao was still in a daze and lied awkwardly: "No, I'm just sleepy."
He deliberately stretched and yawned, "Yu Chen, I'm so sleepy, I'm going to bed first."
Are mermaids sleepy creatures? Yu Chen remembered that Mu Mu slept for a long time in the afternoon, and now he is sleepy again?
He watched the fish sink to the bottom of the pond quietly, picked up a piece of apple with his slender fingers, put it in his mouth and chewed it carefully.
[Beep—Beep—High-risk NPC detection underway, identity confirmed, Yu Chen from Yujia Village]
【Gender: Male】
【age:? ? ? 】
【Race:? ? ? 】
【Overall strength: ???】
[Things I like: Small, soft fish (doubtful),???]
【Evaluation: Run!!!】
Mu Miao looked at this series of question marks and was also full of questions. After reading them one by one, Mu Miao felt that there might be a bug in the system.
Although Yu Chen is a bit cold, sometimes scares people, and has a bad taste from time to time, he is still a very nice person. During the time when Mu Mu came, Yu Chen would give him blood to drink without fear of pain.
Mu Miao was furious and retorted: [001, Yu Chen is a good person, you misunderstood him.]
001: [I don't know him, so how can I tell if he's a good guy or a bad guy? However, those basic data are automatically generated by the copy system, so there is a possibility of error. After all, it has always been stupid.]
Mu Mu was able to enter the copy with the help of 001. The copy system is the biggest controller of this game. Mu Mu, who becomes an NPC in an abnormal way, must complete his tasks to obtain points, otherwise he will be discovered by the copy system and expelled from the copy.
Mu Miao nodded affirmatively. "There must be something wrong. Even Yu Chen's race is questionable. There must be something wrong."
001 had just woken up and was unfamiliar with Yu Chen. Since Mu Miao had said so, there must be something wrong with the system. [Okay, I'll go check it out.]
So 001 left to investigate the specific bug. Before leaving, it told Mu Mu, "My little master, my energy has recovered a little. To make it easier to move, I've replaced your legs. You can choose between fish tails or human legs."
001's personality was as strong as ever. It simply notified Mu Mu, left these words, and disappeared again.
Mu Mu had no objection to this. With a thought, the fish tail instantly turned into slender legs. The only drawback was... he was naked now.
A koi fish was swimming on Mu Mu's body, staring at him with its round eyes. Mu Mu's face turned red little by little, and he silently changed his tail back.
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