A few minutes later, the human speedboat Troyes came to a stop.
Gu Qingqiu felt nauseous, though she could probably only vomit stomach acid. It took her a while to open her eyes, and she found a row of...
Seaweed, kelp, and some deep-sea fish.
Is this mermaid food?
Gu Qingqiu hadn't seen such primitive "ingredients" in a long time, and for a moment she didn't know where to start eating.
Gu Qingqiu was the first to give up on those fish. She felt that their dead fish eyes looked like they were dying with their eyes wide open, and since they hadn't been gutted at all, she could only imagine how they would taste.
But this seaweed and kelp...
Thinking of the seaweed that had been wrapped around her body, Gu Qingqiu silently reached out to the seaweed.
Hmm...it seems a bit hard...
Gu Qingqiu ate with great difficulty. Troye thought she was just being polite, and even stuffed a fish into his mouth right in front of her.
...I seem to have even less appetite now.
Although the unprocessed kelp was still edible, it had almost no taste, only a hard-to-describe "sea taste." Gu Qingqiu felt even more frustrated, feeling no different from a starving human gnawing on tree bark and shoe soles. She wondered if eating raw kelp would cause her to ingest bacteria and parasites along with the food.
Forget it, let's just focus on surviving first. My life is the most important thing...
Troye watched Gu Qingqiu eat slowly and deliberately, taking small bites.
Do humans eat that little? Then she's definitely an easy pet to keep.
After finishing their meal, Troyes took Gu Qingqiu back to the stone house.
Gu Qingqiu's exhausted body went limp the moment it touched the marble slab. Although it wasn't a comfortable bed in theory, it was still bearable because of her fatigue and the buoyancy of the water.
When Gu Qingqiu woke up, she didn't see Troyes in the room. She didn't dare to run around and could only sit up and wait.
A moment later, Troyes returned, clutching some branches, leather, buttons, and rope-like objects in his hands.
"What is this?" Gu Qingqiu asked.
Troye naturally didn't answer; of course, even if he did, Gu Qingqiu probably wouldn't understand.
He spread everything out on the ground, gestured with his hands towards Gu Qingqiu's body for a long time, and then began to process the things he had brought back. He picked out branches of roughly the same length and put them together, smoothed out the sharp parts with tools, and then arranged them in a certain order.
After watching for more than ten minutes, Gu Qingqiu finally figured it out—Troyer was making her new clothes!
He finally realized that her clothes were tattered and torn...
An hour later, Troye handed the finished product to Gu Qingqiu, raising his handsome head as if to say, "How about it, human? I'm good to you, aren't I?"
Gu Qingqiu accepted it with a dry laugh. If she had to describe it, the "skirt" Troyes made was the perfect length, but only for the lower half of the body...
Looking at Troyes's bare upper body, Gu Qingqiu didn't know how to explain to him that female humans need to cover their upper bodies with clothing.
Troye saw that Gu Qingqiu's expression was serious and distorted, and that she hadn't changed into the dress he had spent a whole hour making. He was not happy about it, so he snorted and prepared to turn and leave—humans really are no good! Picky and spoiled!
"Wait!" Gu Qingqiu quickly grabbed Troye, her face flushed, and gestured wildly before covering her chest with her hands.
Troye was still not very happy and didn't understand what this troublesome human was gesturing about.
Helpless, Gu Qingqiu touched Troyes's pectoral muscles with her palm.
Troye felt a tingling, electric sensation spread throughout his body, and he took a few steps back like a startled bird.
What did this human do to him? Why did he react so strongly? What does this feeling feel like? How come he's never felt this before?
Gu Qingqiu was also stunned; she hadn't expected Troyes to react so strongly.
Troye felt that Gu Qingqiu's expression was one of doubt, so he could only keep a straight face and swim back to Gu Qingqiu, signaling her to continue.
Gu Qingqiu placed her palm on Troye's chest again, and this time, she could feel his heartbeat.
So mermaids do have heartbeats too...
Seeing that the other party had not made any further move for a long time, Troye flicked his tail, creating a ripple in the water to signal Gu Qingqiu not to be in a daze.
Gu Qingqiu quickly removed her hand from Troyes' chest and nodded heavily.
Troyes: ?
Then Gu Qingqiu immediately placed her palm on her chest and shook her head very vigorously.
Troyes: ...
After much fuss and demonstration, Troye finally understood what this troublesome human meant: female humans' clothing needed to cover their chests.
He had secretly observed humans in the ocean before, and his mother told him that humans would travel to the deep sea in things called "ships".
Out of curiosity, Troye went to see it a few times and saw many people standing on the ship shirtless, just like him. However, some people were wearing clothes on their upper bodies. Troye thought it was just a difference in their personal preferences, since his mother never covered her upper body and very generously showed off her good figure.
However, upon closer reflection, it seems that he had indeed never seen a female human before, so his conclusion was not rigorous enough.
Right, why are there so few female humans?
Troye scrutinized Gu Qingqiu for a moment and once again drew his own conclusion—perhaps it's because female humans aren't strong enough at surviving; after all, this one in front of him was quite foolish and was on the verge of extinction.
Since that's the case, it's understandable that a precious human species can be a little delicate. So Troye nodded magnanimously, flicked his tail, and left the stone house.
However, he returned quickly this time, throwing colorful and differently shaped seashells and scallops onto the ground.
You have a high comprehension ability!
However, Gu Qingqiu still possessed a sense of human shame, so she selected two relatively large seashells and handed them to Troye.
Troye's expression was full of disdain, as if he was questioning Gu Qingqiu's aesthetic sense.
Gu Qingqiu looked at the other beautiful but pitifully small seashells on the ground and fell silent.
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