Chapter 1206

If women are made of water, then a mermaid is probably a flood or a tsunami!

The mermaid cast a lingering glance at Su Yang's wet clothes, and with a single thought, the moisture on the clothes was carried away, restoring them to dryness.

Su Yang said, "Let's head back!"

The mermaid nodded, about to agree, but suddenly froze in place.

"What's wrong? Is there something else?"

The mermaid looked at Su Yang and hurriedly said, "Master, turn around, don't look!"

"Don't look at what?"

At that moment, Xiao Yu's body went limp and toppled toward the ground.

But this time, without Su Yang needing to support her, she was held up by a cluster of waves.

"M-Master, turn your head away... don't look!"

Xiao Yu lay on the waves, her rapid tone carrying a hint of pain.

Her golden fish tail began to swing violently, and her body lying on the waves trembled as if sifting chaff.

"What's wrong with you? If there's any problem, just tell me, I'll help you solve it!"

Seeing her in pain, how could Su Yang turn a blind eye?

No matter what, she was his pet beast!

"Turn! Turn around..."

Before Xiao Yu could finish speaking, she let out a painful shriek.

Su Yang was about to ask the system what was going on when he saw Xiao Yu's violently swinging golden fish tail split apart!

It was as if an invisible blade had forcefully sliced her tail open.

But not a single drop of blood flowed.

"It can't be, can it?"

Su Yang seemed to understand what had happened to the mermaid!

"Don't... don't..."

"Don't what?"

"..."

When everything was over, the Golden-Scaled Mermaid had already restored her fish tail.

Su Yang felt that he might never forget the scene he had just witnessed in his entire life.

Legend has it that when a powerful mermaid grows to a certain stage, she can grow a pair of legs like a human's.

Su Yang thought it was all just legend, but today, he had witnessed it with his own eyes.

The Golden-Scaled Mermaid lay on the waves, her face pale, as if she had just suffered a serious illness.

But Su Yang knew she wasn't in serious trouble—she had just grown a little more.

It was probably just that the transformation just now had consumed quite a bit of her stamina.

"What did you just say not to do?"

"... I told you not to look!"

The mermaid buried her face directly into the waves.

"Huh?"

"Gurgle gurgle gurgle gurgle..."

"..."

When Su Yang walked out of the room with Xiao Yu, Sovereign Jiazi was standing at the doorway gazing into the distance.

The Nine-Tailed Fox sat quietly beside her, silently keeping her company.

Su Yang asked, "What are you looking at?"

Seeing Su Yang appear, the Nine-Tailed Fox quietly took a few steps away.

But it was clearly just being sensitive—Su Yang didn't pay it any mind.

"Looking at the city!" Sovereign Jiazi said softly, "I really envy this place, it's so much better than where I used to live... sometimes, I also think, if all that hadn't happened, how wonderful it would have been! Maybe I could have saved more people and lived a better life!"

"Are you blaming me?"

Su Yang naturally knew what she was referring to.

Even after being betrayed by everyone, Sovereign Jiazi still seemed to care about her old people in her heart.

A little soft-hearted, somewhat beyond Su Yang's expectations.

"No, just... just some regret."

"Regret is fine too, and I don't care if you blame me!" Su Yang smiled, looking at the distant city as he said, "Plenty of people hate me, but I'm still living out in the open. They're either dead, or hiding in filthy sewers trembling like rats."

"General Su, may I ask you a question?"

Sovereign Jiazi was well aware of Su Yang's magnanimity and wasn't frightened by his words.

If Su Yang really wanted to deal with her, he wouldn't have helped her cultivate her pet beast.

"Go ahead and ask!"

"Have you ever had regrets?"

"Yes!"

"You have regrets too?" Sovereign Jiazi said in surprise, "You're in the Federation now, your status should be very high, right? There's no one in the Federation who doesn't give you face—how could you have regrets?"

"I do!"

"Mm!"

Sovereign Jiazi nodded and didn't press further.

She looked at Xiaoyu and asked with a smile, "Xiaoyu, how do you feel?"

"Very good — better than ever!"

"That's good!" Sovereign Jiazi nodded, then asked Su Yang, "General Su, is there anything I need to pay attention to?"

"Make sure Xiaoyu fights often. As long as it fights, its strength will improve quite quickly!"

"Understood!"

Su Yang's answer was not beyond Sovereign Jiazi's expectations either.

Xia Na was the type who improved rapidly through combat, as if there were no other complicated supplementary methods.

Bringing the mermaid back to her room, Sovereign Jiazi gently closed the door. She had the Nine-Tailed Fox cast a mental barrier, and only after the Nine-Tails confirmed no one could monitor her did she quietly ask the mermaid, "Xiaoyu, how exactly did General Su train you?"

To say she wasn't curious about Su Yang's method of cultivating beast-companions would be a lie.

"General Su said this is top secret and cannot be told to anyone!"

"I'm your master!"

Xiaoyu said softly, "Master, you don't count either!"

"But I'm your master — what if I order you to tell me?"

"Master, this is General Su's order. Please don't make things difficult for me!"

It was the first time Sovereign Jiazi had run into such a situation.

She had a nagging feeling that if she kept pressing, Xiaoyu would turn on her outright.

It hadn't even been that long since she'd gone to Su Yang's room, yet the beast-companion who had been by her side day and night for over ten years was already defying her reasonable request — all for the sake of Su Yang's order!

Sovereign Jiazi was completely dumbfounded!

The Nine-Tailed Fox spoke up: "Master, this one here seems to have the potential to defect!"

Sovereign Jiazi's face stiffened.

Ordinary beast-tamers truly couldn't see their beast-companions' loyalty as intuitively as Su Yang did; they could only rely on their own experience to judge.

But a very few outstanding mental-type beast-companions could faintly sense changes in fierce beasts or in the human heart.

Although not intuitive, it could serve as a rough reference.

The Nine-Tailed Fox, too, could sense things vaguely.

It could make such a judgment not only because it was too familiar with the mermaid and had a grasp of its usual mindset, but also because the mermaid had just defied Sovereign Jiazi's order…

All of these were danger signals.

Still, for the Nine-Tails to come right out and say it like that was rather disrespectful to the mermaid.

The Nine-Tails was clearly unafraid.

Sovereign Jiazi quickly tried to smooth things over: "Xiao Jiu, don't say that. I trust Xiaoyu — we get along wonderfully!"

The mermaid said through gritted teeth: "Stinky fox, I've put up with you for far too long. Let's have a fight!"