"Pull your tail back. It's so long it's hard to hide."
Tu Ling was helpless: "How can I retract this? I can't swim even if my tail is retracted."
Lance thought about it and realized that if he retracted his tail, he wouldn't be able to swim. But Tu Ling couldn't just leave like this. This long red tail was too conspicuous. He didn't know what he was thinking about. His face flushed a little and his eyes wandered. "How about you wrap yourself around me again and I'll take you down?"
Tu Ling naturally didn't mind. She was even looking forward to it because when she was holding Lance's arms just now, she actually felt that holding a human, oh no, holding a mermaid was quite enjoyable.
So she readily agreed: "Okay."
Hearing Tu Ling agree so quickly, Lance felt a little embarrassed and sulky. Are all females on land so casual? Will she do whatever anyone asks her to do?
He rolled his eyes at Tu Ling, then swam out and picked a piece of seaweed from the rock wall. The seaweed leaf was a meter wide and stretched endlessly. Lance tore off a section and returned to the passage: "Come up."
Tu Ling immediately climbed onto Lance, their chests pressed together. Since Tu Ling's animal skin skirt had been completely soaked in the sea, it was like she was not wearing anything at all. But Tu Ling didn't care. Instead, she wrapped her tail around Lance, rubbing it up and down without noticing.
This made Lance freak out: "Don't rub it! What should I do if the scales fall off?"
Tu Ling: "Do your mermaids' scales fall off so easily? Are you sick? Don't infect me."
"You're the one who's sick!" Lance said, rubbing against Tu Ling's tail. "I'll pass the disease on to you too! Hold on tight, I'm going to move."
Lance angrily wrapped the water plants around himself, venting his anger by wrapping them around himself, almost strangling Tu Ling to the point of suffocating her breath.
Tu Ling felt like she was about to be sucked into Lansler's body: "Be gentle! My bones are about to break."
Lance didn't say anything, but his strength had already loosened. He continued to gently wrap himself in seaweed until the Tu Ling on his body could no longer be seen from the outside, and then he swam out.
Tu Ling was completely wrapped up, and could only look up to see Lance's smooth and round chin, his slender and delicate neck, and the blurry top of the mountain.
She squinted her eyes, making sure there was no sunlight shining down from above. Then why was this place so bright? Even plants that needed sunlight could grow there?
She pulled upwards, trying to stick her head out, but Lance pushed her back: "What are you doing? Are you trying to get yourself killed?"
Tu Ling sighed. "How dare a male on the seabed speak to a female like that? Do you know what would happen to a male on land?"
Lance didn't even lower his head, but just swam forward: "Our sea is different from your land."
"In addition to respecting females, the mermaids also use bloodline as a criterion for judging status."
After saying this, he pulled a handful of hair over to show Tu Ling: "Golden hair like mine represents royal blood. Below that is the royal family, their hair is blue, and below that is purple, classified as relatives. I don't know the classification of other colors, anyway, in my opinion, they are commoners, and the lowest class is black, because they are the same color as the sirens."
Tu Ling's face turned a little dark. Why should black be the lowest color? Black is the color of her motherland. She spoke in a sarcastic tone: "Then in your eyes, am I also very lowly?" After all, she was also black on land, and the black was very pure.
"Not really. You're from land, and I know I can't judge you by that standard. So, to me, all your colors are the same."
Tu Ling had an idea in mind. The mermaid tribe's system was somewhat similar to the monarchy system.
"Hold on tight, I'm going to swim downstream." Lance reminded, then turned and swam downwards.
Now Tu Ling finally understood why this cave was still bright even without the sun. It was unknown what was glowing at the bottom of the pit, and the light could even illuminate this huge cave.
"What's glowing down there?" Tu Ling squinted her eyes to see clearly.
"It's the crystals. We discovered that if we put enough crystals together, they'll glow, which is perfect for lighting. That's why we mermaids keep collecting crystals."
Tu Ling swallowed and asked, "About...how many are there?"
Lance thought about it. These crystals could cover the entire bottom of the cave. How many of them would be needed?
"I don't know. It's like the grains of sand on the beach. I can't count them."
Tu Ling imagined lying on a beach made of crystal stones, and she was almost bubbling with happiness.
There are so many, who can find out if she steals one space?
"arrive."
In front of Lance was a cave with a diameter of about two meters. There was a huge seaweed growing right under the cave, and its huge leaves blocked the cave tightly. In addition to this seaweed, there were also corals and anemones growing around it, and all kinds of strange-shaped fish were wandering around it.
Lance pushed aside the seaweed and swam in. When he could no longer see the scenery outside the seaweed, Lance breathed a sigh of relief: "I was scared to death. If the Queen Mother found out that I brought a merman back, she would definitely scold me."
"I became a mermaid because I ate something from your mermaid tribe." Tu Ling complained. She had never seen anyone become a member of the opposing race after eating someone else's treasure. Isn't this just asking for trouble?
Yes, Tu Ling was a little skeptical. Is this pearl really a mermaid thing? It can turn into a mermaid, but why does it feel like this thing is actually a mermaid?
Thinking about it, she asked, "You didn't steal this thing from the mermaids, and then turned the tables and said they stole your things, did you?"
Lance was furious: "What are you talking about! Are we mermaids that kind of people?"
"Then how do you explain that eating your treasure will turn you into a mermaid?"
Although Lance also found it strange, he absolutely could not agree with Tu Ling's idea: "Maybe you are the only one who will be like this after eating it. Other orcs may also turn into mermaids or other fish if they eat it."
Tu Ling didn't believe it at all, but she didn't care about her and just patrolled the Lans Cave on her own.
There were indeed a lot of crystals piled up in Lance's room as he said, but the level was not very high, most of them were level five or six, completely different from what he showed her that day.
In the middle of the room stood a large, clean pink shell. Next to it stood two uniquely shaped corals, each adorned with various crystals and pearls. On the left side of the room stood a large rock, upon which lay a number of ornaments made of shells and pearls. Tu Ling pointed to a necklace and said, "Can I pick it up and have a look?"
Lance was not a stingy mermaid, and said generously, "If you like it, I'll give it to you directly."
As he spoke, he took off the pearl shoulder ornaments he was wearing and placed them neatly.
Hi everyone, I'm Zhijiujian. Please pay attention to me. (Does anyone know this meme? -.-)
(End of this chapter)
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