The witch doctor looked at Lan Jiao and put on a kind face again: "Kid, you can't rest. Try harder, and the baby will come out soon."
"And you, don't cover his mouth!" The witch doctor slapped Tu Ling's hand again, with a loud snap.
Lan Jiao became even angrier when he saw this, and struggled violently. The witch doctor thought he was in pain and immediately comforted him: "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid. Why don't you let him go?"
Tu Ling smiled awkwardly, wondering if she could let him go. Tu Ling warned Lan Jiao: "I will let you go later, don't talk nonsense, if you have anything to say, wait until after the baby is born."
Lan Jiao nodded in Tu Ling's arms, and only when his struggle subsided did Tu Ling dare to let him go.
"Come on, kid, try harder!"
Lan Jiao began to concentrate on giving birth. After being straightened out by the witch doctor, the pain was indeed not as severe as before.
"Um--"
"Ouch, the head is coming out!"
The witch doctor finally knew where the mermaid gave birth to the child. He immediately ran over, held the child's head, and shouted at him to hold on hard.
Tu Ling saw that there was suddenly an extra head on the tail, and the skin on the tail was stretched to become transparent. Tu Ling's scalp felt numb instantly.
Wow, this is too scary. Scarier than zombies.
"Do you dislike me?"
Lan Jiao was giving birth to a child with great difficulty. She looked up inadvertently and saw Tu Ling's indescribable expression, and her emotions instantly became agitated.
"No, how could I possibly dislike you? Stop getting distracted."
"You just dislike me! Ah——"
Lan Jiao screamed and blamed Tu Ling, and Tu Ling was patiently persuading her.
“It’s out!”
Following the baby's cry, Lan Jiao lost his strength, squinting his eyes and reaching out his hand towards the baby: "Let my wife see it."
The witch doctor used a stone to break the umbilical cord, and after treating it, placed it in Lan Jiao's arms.
The little mermaid cub closed its eyes, opened its mouth wide, and cried loudly. Its skin was wrinkled like a little old man, and its pointed mermaid ears were almost transparent.
The tail is not very long, and the scales are soft and smooth, with red and black colors.
"It's over, this is a hybrid."
Tu Ling still thinks the purebred one looks better, with a tail that is red and black, like a koi.
"What's wrong? I think it looks pretty good. You can tell at a glance that this is the cub of you and me." Lan Jiao's face was full of smiles, and his fingers kept teasing the little cub.
"Wife, please give him a name."
"Just the koi fish."
"No, that's a fish name. We are mermaids, and children should take their father's last name, so his last name must be Lan. This is the custom among you humans."
"But it seems like I am the father?" Although Tu Ling didn't want to admit that he would become a father one day, it seemed that reality was so bloody.
Lan Jiao was choked by Tu Ling's words. For a moment, he didn't know whether he was the father or the mother.
"Then follow the rules of the animal world. The cubs must take the male's surname!"
Tu Ling smacked her lips. "But the rules in the animal world seem to be that male cubs take their father's surname, and female cubs take their mother's surname. Is the one you gave birth to a male or a female?"
Lan Jiao: ……
Tu Ling looked at Lan Jiao's bewildered expression and finally laughed: "If you want the cub to have your last name, just tell me directly. I don't mind."
Lan Jiao was angered by Tu Ling's laughter. Just now he was working hard to give birth to a child, and now Tu Ling was teasing him. How heartless! "Humph! Then give him a new name."
"Is Lanjin okay now? He has a bright future ahead of him."
Lan Jiao shook her head and asked tentatively, "Can I name him Lan Ling?"
In fact, he didn't want the cub to have his surname, but he knew that only female cubs could have the surname Tu Ling, so he wanted to get the character "Ling" for himself.
"You've already thought of it, why do you need me to name it?"
"Aren't you his mother? Then can he be called Lan Ling?"
Tu Ling felt that the name didn't matter, as long as it sounded nice: "Of course."
After the two of them had a good rest, Tu Ling gave all the barbecue and prey in the space to the witch doctor.
When the witch doctor saw so much food, he couldn't stop smiling.
"Next time you give birth, come find me!"
Lan Jiao snorted, "You always hit people. I won't do this again next time."
"Let's go."
"Hold me."
Tu Ling, considering that he had just given birth, allowed him to hold the child: "Hold the child tightly! Don't drop it."
Lan Jiao immediately hugged the cub tighter in her arms, but when Tu Ling bent down to hug Lan Jiao, she fell down.
"Wife! Tu Ling, what's wrong with you?"
Tu Ling then remembered that in order to find a witch doctor, she had overdrawn all her supernatural powers, and then spent a long time trying to control Lan Jiao. Now she was so weak and powerless that she was almost as exhausted as Lan Jiao, a pregnant woman who had just given birth.
"It's okay. I was so scared by your sudden birth that my legs went weak. It will be fine after a while."
Fortunately, there is a portal leading to the cave.
"Witch doctor, can you help me get Lan Jiao back into the cave?"
"This?" The witch doctor looked at the dark cave entrance. It looked very ominous, but thinking that Tu Ling had given her so much food, she decided to help.
With the help of the witch doctor, Lan Jiao, Tu Ling and the newly born Lan Ling all returned to the cave safely.
However, they were on the platform and the entrance to the cave was blocked by wooden boards, so the orcs in the cave did not notice that Tu Ling had returned for a while.
The witch doctor looked at the sudden change of location in front of her and was so surprised that she couldn't speak, but how could she go back now?
"You go in and you're back to where you were."
After sending the witch doctor away, Tu Ling shouted, and the orcs in the cave rushed out instantly.
"Mastress!"
"Well, Bai Qi, carry Lan Jiao inside for a moment."
"What is this? Cub!"
"When was it born?"
Everyone gathered around, surrounding Lan Jiao and Tu Ling tightly.
Tu Ling was helpless. Did he have to watch outside? It was raining heavily outside.
"You guys carry the person in first..."
Tu Ling fainted before she could finish her words. She really couldn't hold on any longer.
"Mastress!"
Tu Ling felt very uneasy in her sleep, as she dreamed of the duel with the Zombie King in her previous life.
But this time it was no longer her who was dueling with the Zombie King, but Gu Chen and the others.
His level isn't that high yet, yet he still insists on provoking the Zombie King.
But wasn't she the one who killed the Zombie King? How could a new Zombie King appear so quickly?
It was then that she realized she was dreaming.
Tu Ling opened his eyes drowsily and saw six pairs of eyes staring at him.
Seeing that Tu Ling finally woke up after sleeping for a whole day, Bai Qi cried with joy.
"Well, mistress, you finally woke up. If you hadn't woken up, I would have been scared to death."
"Don't worry, you won't die."
Tu Ling spoke and found that her voice was very hoarse. Did she seem to have a fever? It had been so long since she had a fever. It was really a long-awaited experience.
"Madam, drink some water." Yin Hen held a small wooden barrel filled with cooled boiled water.
(End of this chapter)
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