"Why aren't you talking? Ah! Can't you talk?" Yin Chen suddenly looked enlightened. He flicked his golden tail, lowered his body and half-lay down next to the seashell, propped his face up with his hands and looked up at Long Xun, saying with a troubled expression, "This is troublesome. If we can't communicate, how will we know where you came from? Your parents must be very worried, right?"
Even if we report it to the police, there's nothing we can do.
Looking at this idiot propping his face up like a childish little girl in kindergarten, Long Xun couldn't help but slowly say, "I have no parents."
"Huh? Huh?" Yin Chen didn't react for a moment.
Long Xun's calm and indifferent golden vertical pupils quietly gazed into those deep blue eyes, repeating once more: "I have no parents."
Never.
There has never been, and there never will be.
Yin Chen stared blankly at the child in front of him.
Mermaids have long lifespans and a very long childhood, only reaching adulthood after two hundred years of age. Judging from the appearance of this child, he is definitely no more than thirty years old.
Haven't your parents been by your side for so long?
For some reason, Yin Chen suddenly felt a sharp pain in his heart and stammered, "I'm sorry."
Long Xun didn't understand why Yin Chen would apologize. Whether or not Yin Chen had parents was not something he could decide, and he didn't think there was anything wrong with the topic.
Yin Chen quickly laughed again: "Hahaha, it seems we're really destined to meet, I don't have parents either! But it's okay, I'm doing just fine, umm... I have many friends, and you'll have many friends too, so it's okay... don't be sad..."
He rambled on incoherently, imagining Long Xun's perpetually expressionless face as the self-isolation and sadness of an abused child, and he had just inadvertently touched on the other's sore spot again... This left Yin Chen at a loss, wishing he could turn back time and slap his outspoken self to death.
Long Xun was speechless at this guy's incessant chatter. At this moment, he especially missed Yin Chen from his first life, who, although a bit of an idiot, would become shy and only smile foolishly when he saw him. He also missed the smiling tiger-like, cunning emperor from his second life, and even more so, the cute and obedient child from his third life... Damn it! In the first three lives, A-Chen was very quiet, so why is this guy so noisy in this life?!
"I'm not sad." Long Xun interrupted him, unable to bear it any longer. To prevent him from continuing the topic, he asked again, "You found me?"
"Huh?" Yin Chen quickly forgot about the previous topic, scratched the back of his head, and chuckled foolishly, "Yeah, you've been sleeping right outside my door for days. I was worried you might have gotten hurt somewhere and I hadn't noticed..."
Has it been several days already? I wonder how he is doing now...
"But the fans say you seem fine. I was wondering if I should go to a hospital in a big city to get checked out. I was just looking for my medical card..."
A hospital? Medical cards? The mermaids in this world have even established such a system? That's fucking amazing! Mermaids building spaceships is one thing, but how come their infrastructure is so modern? Could these mermaids just be humans in mermaid skin?
Could it be that in some human society, melting glaciers caused seawater to flood the continent, leading to humans evolving into mermaids? That's not impossible...
"Luckily you woke up, otherwise it would have taken several days, and I don't know how much it would have cost... Ah, I accidentally scared my neighbor's pet seahorse so badly the other day that it got sick, and I had to pay a lot of money. I haven't even received my salary this month... blah blah blah..."
Long Xun: "..." Why did the topic suddenly jump to such a mundane subject? What were they talking about just now? No, it seems like this chatterbox was the one doing all the talking; he hadn't said a word!
Just as Long Xun was about to interrupt his incessant chatter, Yin Chen miraculously changed the subject and continued, "...But it's good that you're awake now, so I can tell the fans not to worry about you anymore! Oh, by the way, you haven't eaten for three days, you must be hungry, right? Luckily, we have some ingredients at home, shall I make you some soup to warm you up? My home is on the first floor of Qinghua City, about 10,000 meters from the sea, it's quite cold there."
You can drink soup from the sea?!
Won't it just dissolve into the water?
Long Xun felt like he was truly connected to the internet in his village.
After Yin Chen finished speaking, he clapped his hands and swam excitedly out of the exit. Long Xun was a step too slow and didn't have time to call him back. He only saw a golden tail flicker at the cave entrance and then disappear. So he simply didn't say anything more.
After pondering for a moment, Long Xun raised his chubby left hand. His round and translucent little hand revealed a simple, silver-gray ring on his left middle finger that only he could see. The ring sat there quietly, waiting to transmit the information.
Thankfully, the ring came along with him after he became a child, so he could finally learn about the main storyline of this bizarre world... Otherwise, after encountering a series of ridiculous events and not being able to find a clue to carry out the mission, Long Xun felt that he would really vomit blood.
However, before watching the plot, Long Xun first opened his system, browsed through it, and found the pet icon.
A flash of light, and the Milk Tea Rat, which hadn't appeared for several chapters, reappeared.
When Milk Tea first appeared, it looked a bit dazed, floating foolishly in front of Long Xun. With the buoyancy of the seawater, it spread its limbs, and every hair floated gracefully in the water. Then, it saw its owner at a glance, and Milk Tea became excited instantly. Its two black bean eyes widened, and it waved its four paws frantically, trying to run to its owner's side and rub against him to express its longing.
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