Chapter 1738: Mermaid Care Guide 10

Jin Chen felt many gazes on him; his instincts grew uneasy and repulsed—there were simply too many humans here, almost every animal had a keeper, not to mention staff wandering everywhere.

He glanced sideways and saw, under an artificial rain curtain, a pitiful little polar bear being scolded and whipped by its keeper; Jin Chen sensed its emotion—only fear, yet felt nothing amiss.

Even if the intelligent animals' IQ had approached, or even surpassed, that of humans, let alone their innate racial talents.

They remained domesticated in this form until their numbers were called for the genetic fusion modification experiment.

This is a terrifying utopia.

"What are you thinking?" Lin Juan asked curiously, naturally starting a new round of observation.

"How miserable."

Jin Chen spoke frankly, not even hiding it from the other keepers: "This place is tiny."

He gestured: "My home is much bigger—just one fish lives there."

Yet here we need so many animals crammed together.

Lin Juan understood his implied meaning, his expression unchanged, merely smiling: "This place is very safe."

Jin Chen: "Tsk."

"With Juan here, I won't go back."

Jin Chen shook off the hand holding Lin Juan's, then leaned in and loosely wrapped his arms around her waist.

But this was outside; Lin Juan slapped his hand away: "No."

"Go play by yourself."

Jin Chen looked around, released Lin Juan's hand, and jumped into the water.

The water here is drawn directly from the ocean outside the island; Jin Chen adapted quickly, chasing the white whale that fled at the sight of him beneath the surface.

"Don't run!"

When the white whale's tail was caught, it still retained fear—an instinctive recoil from Jin Chen's kind.

After holding its breath for a while, it blurted at Jin Chen: "Big… Great King?"

Jin Chen raised an eyebrow, accepting the title unceremoniously: "What are you running for!"

Fierce-looking, yet truly handsome.

The white whale's eyes turned starry as it circled Jin Chen: "Great King, you're formidable; I fear I can't beat you."

Its speech was still quite articulate.

The adult Jin Chen, whose form had not fully changed, expressed great envy.

He patted the white whale's smooth back, lay upon it to sleep, his newly elongated tail fin swaying gently in the water like a sea deity.

"I'm asking you." After lying awhile, Jin Chen opened his blue eyes, first scanning the underwater cameras and monitoring devices scattered below, then raised a hand to cast a seal.

Then he asked the white whale, which dared not move, its bewitching, melodious voice rich in texture: "How long have you been captured?"

The white whale remained immersed in the Great King's beauty, unable to pull itself away.

Jin Chen slapped it, admonishing: "Speak."

"... Oh oh," the white whale's eyes slightly dazed: "I wasn't captured; I came here to recuperate."

"Why not escape?"

"Why leave? This place is great—you can eat your fill every day, there are lots of places to play, and the pool is big enough for me to roll over twice!"

Jin Chen found speaking laborious, so he simply placed his palm on the white whale's forehead and communicated telepathically.

"The ocean is vast and boundless, plenty to roam for a long time—you should leave this place."

The white whale paused its speech, puzzled, as if recalling something from Jin Chen's words.

That was long ago, when it chased a good friend in play, pursuing for ages, that place seemed endless.

But.

"Wasn't that a dream?"

Jin Chen looked at it, complex and strange, his deep blue eyes holding emotions the white whale couldn't comprehend.

He discovered something inside the white whale, like a crystal core but more like a prison ring.

The white whale likely underwent the first surgery; even if it broke free of this place's confinement, it would still be controlled.

"It's not a dream; everything here is fake." Jin Chen gave no further warning, fearing that if the white whale entered a stressed state it would backfire.

He gradually undid the seal, finally saying: "I will take you away."

The white whale suddenly felt at a loss.

Feeling Jin Chen's palm withdraw, it, wise, said nothing more, merely sinking silently into the depths, sensing the crampedness through touch.

Jin Chen patted its head and swam upward.

"Wow! So beautiful!"

Xu Yi crouched by the water for a long time, personally seeing the rumored mysterious mermaid surface, stunned into awe.

This was simply the most beautiful person… fish he had ever seen in his life!

Xu Yi's gaze then drifted downward, drawn to the pale blue, beautiful tail fin: "Is this a comic come to life?"

Jin Chen finally saw the seme, slowly swimming to the shore, his silver hair slightly damp, draped over his shoulders, the pale scales at the corners of his eyes shimmering ice‑blue.

"Human, who are you?"

Even his voice is so pleasant!

Right, it's said mermaids' singing is always lovely—this too is a kind of talent.

Xu Yi muttered inwardly, reaching out with vigor: "Hello, I'm Xu Yi, Keeper Number Ten."

Having said that, he scooped up the little seal beside him.

"Hug!"

The little seal jumped up excitedly, likewise dazzled to the point of seeing stars.

Jin Chen glanced at Xu Yi's hand, rather arrogantly pinched his fingertip and gave it a shake, "My name is, Jin…"

"Number Seventeen."

Lin Juan, who had walked over, coldly cut in, "Don't just talk nonsense."

"Oh."

Jin Chen paused, then said to Xu Yi again, "My name is, Number Seventeen."

Xu Yi stared, then nodded, "Ah, Number Seventeen, hello."

I always feel that the handsome merman just now wasn't going to say this code name.

When Jin Chen sat up on shore, he didn't stand, just reached out his hand to Lin Juan, "Look."

He pointed at Little Seal and Xu Yi, envy in his eyes, "I want a hug too."

Lin Juan helplessly lifted him up, then pinched Jin Chen's pretty face, asking doubtfully, "What's in your mouth?"

Jin Chen spat out the camera that had turned into scrap metal, "Pah, disgusting."

Lin Juan: "…"

Really a set of sharp teeth.

"Just now a monitor staff reported that the underwater surveillance completely failed for two minutes."

Lin Juan asked Jin Chen in a low voice, with an implied investigation, "Did you see anything?"

"No." Jin Chen said righteously, holding onto him without letting go, and pointed at the white whale still underwater, "I was, sleeping."

Jin Chen lay in Lin Juan's neck crook, refusing to continue the topic, using his ability during his weak period made his soul lag behind his body's fatigue,

"Tired."

Lin Juan indeed also hadn't noticed anything amiss, rubbed his head, "Then let's not play, go back to rest."

That also won't do, after all the trouble to come out.

Jin Chen suddenly sat up straight, "Not tired anymore."

He picked up Little Seal from beside him, waved at Lin Juan, "Goodbye."

Lin Juan indeed still had things to attend to, glanced at the smirking Xu Yi, said nothing, and turned to leave.

Xu Yi let out a long breath, "Doctor Lin really has a powerful presence."

Setting up another barrier would obviously not be wise; in the following half day, Jin Chen had been secretly transmitting a few pieces of information to Xu Yi.

He hadn't been mind-controlled, also remembered what the outside looked like, and his racial talent was also very strong.

So if Xu Yi later wants to rescue the animals here, he would be the best partner to cooperate with.

I don't know if Xu Yi understood clearly, but anyway he's been smiling happily from the start.

Jin Chen even suspected that the protagonist (as the 'receiver') had a condition where not laughing would cause trouble, how terrifying.

But as night approached, when he followed Lin Juan away, he still caught Xu Yi's nod in his peripheral vision, his gaze also becoming firm.

Wow, the protagonist (as the 'receiver') turns out to be a acting type!

Jin Chen, having achieved his goal for the day, was utterly exhausted, limp as a noodle, almost slumped on Lin Juan's back as he followed him back.