Chapter 1751: Guide to Raising Merfolk 23

The next day.

Lin Juan discovered that after waking up, there was something hard beside him.

He opened his somewhat blurry eyes to look, and Lin Juan was dazed for a good while.

On the entire bed, aside from where he slept, everything else was covered with various pearls and gemstones, gorgeous and colorful, sparkling brilliantly.

Lin Juan sat up, supporting his sore waist, and let out a muffled groan from his throat.

He gritted his teeth, really not wanting to recall how many times it had happened last night.

"Jin Chen."

Lin Juan shouted with a hoarse voice.

Behind the exquisite stone pillar, a handsome head popped out; Jin Chen waved his tail fin, swimming forward, still holding a plate in his hand.

"Honey, good morning!"

"Come over here." Lin Juan glared at him.

"...... Oh."

Jin Chen slowly sat on the soft and bouncy bed, gathered a pile of gems and pearls, and shoved them into Lin Juan's arms, saying, "Here, for you."

Lin Juan didn't want these, pursing his slightly swollen lips, he couldn't help but pinch Jin Chen's pointed ear fin, asking, "Did you go crazy last night?"

"Ow, I didn't." Jin Chen shrank his neck, nuzzling into Lin Juan's embrace, saying, "My shoulder still has an injury, honey, can you check it?"

"You...... huh?"

Lin Juan sensed something off, looked at him suspiciously, and said, "Your speech has become fluent?"

"Here there is Sea God Spiritual Power, it's very good for me." Jin Chen leaned in and kissed his chin.

"In another half month it will be the full tide period; I will go to the sea surface reefs to complete the transformation, honey, will you come with me?"

This time it is not a transformation into a fully mature form, but rather completing the part that failed in the previous transformation, fully accepting the inheritance, which also helps repair this overly fragile body.

Lin Juan lowered his gaze, looking at him in thought, and said, "In half a month, let me go."

"Why do you always think about leaving?"

Jin Chen couldn't help but interrupt him, saying, "What's good out there? They're all deceiving you!"

"Who's deceiving me?" Lin Juan wondered.

"That damn old immortal doctor." Jin Chen said angrily.

Lin Juan: "...... That's my teacher."

"That damn old immortal teacher."

Jin Chen readily changed his address.

Lin Juan, angry, pinched his ear fin again, saying, "Nonsense, what did he deceive me about?"

"Xu Yi investigated and found that Edmond never intended to let me mate with Hong Li, nor did he plan to perform gene fusion surgery."

Jin Chen stared at his brows and eyes, his tone very serious, saying, "He wants all my abilities, intending to lock me up at headquarters to constantly conduct extraction experiments until he can perfectly fuse them into his own body."

"The high-intelligence animals that disappeared after successful fusion experiments share the same fate."

Lin Juan's pupils contracted, he stared blankly at Jin Chen, asking, "You… when did you find out, and why didn't you tell me before?"

Jin Chen glanced away, saying, "Speaking before was very tiring."

Lin Juan fell silent for a moment, never expecting that this was the reason.

However, thinking about how this mermaid used to struggle to utter even a few words, it's actually understandable that he can now comprehend.

This silence led Lin Juan to ponder many things.

Actually, the secret of Doctor Edmond, he had noticed it before, but just didn't pay much attention, and never expected that Edmond would have such thoughts.

Speaking from the heart, if it were aimed at other high-intelligence creatures, Lin Juan would still have no reaction, but it cannot be Jin Chen.

But it just so happens to be Jin Chen.

So he hesitated repeatedly, his soft-heartedness flaring up time and again, until it became the current situation.

"Never mind, honey, I'll take you on a tour of this place." Seeing Lin Juan's troubled expression, Jin Chen promptly stopped the topic.

Jin Chen helped him up, followed Lin Juan's opinion to wash up, then embraced him and left the bedroom.

Lin Juan originally did not want to be constantly held.

But the sore waist and back pain were really unpleasant, so he simply let the fish carry him.

Lin Juan's feeling from last night was not unfounded; this place is beautiful, but overly desolate, everything appearing silent and cold.

A group of jellyfish swam in formation through the stone pillars, circling the gemstones a few times, semi-translucent and floating, very beautiful.

Lin Juan looked at them and suddenly understood why this place seemed desolate.

This should be the place where the Merfolk Tribe lives, but only Jin Chen is here, and no second merfolk has been seen.

"Is there only you as a merfolk here? Where is your clan?" Lin Juan looked up, asking the merfolk holding him.

"There are no other merfolk, only me."

Jin Chen gazed ahead, answered casually, and eventually brought Lin Juan to a stop at a plaza of broken walls and ruins.

Lin Juan landed, doubtful, looked up, and saw many colorful light clusters floating on the plaza, as if alive, playing and chasing each other among the gemstones.

"What is this?" Lin Juan reached out, curiously watching those light clusters affectionately rub against him, but when his fingertips touched them, he could only feel the flow of seawater.

"They are also merfolk; different colors just mean different tails."

Jin Chen embraced Lin Juan from behind, his chin resting on his shoulder, his voice somewhat low, saying, "I don't know why, only I have become a true living being; they can only be like this."

"Originally, after accepting the inheritance, I could have known, but……"

Jin Chen's words trailed off, left unsaid.

But Lin Juan knew what he wanted to say.

However, the base's hunting squad captured Jin Chen before the inheritance was completed, severely injuring him until he fully entered the weakened period.

Lin Juan's mood was complicated; upon first entering the headquarters laboratory, he developed doubts about the hunting team, even about the headquarters' hunting motives.

Is it truly for the good of humanity?

Why then capture even creatures like merfolk that only wish to live in the sea bottom?

Honey, can you touch my tail?

Jin Chen suddenly said.

Lin Juan's consciousness was pulled back by him; doubting, he lowered his head to look, and the tail fin underwater looked even more beautiful, truly giving him the urge to touch it.

"Touch it." Jin Chen flicked the tail fin over, swayed it in front of Lin Juan, and made a heart gesture.

Lin Juan reached out to touch it; the feel was strange yet unexpectedly… addictive.

Then Lin Juan couldn't help but touch it a few more times.

Those light clusters for some reason suddenly became more active in their movement; Lin Juan narrowed his eyes, feeling he could see a hint of… excitement.

Jin Chen couldn't help laughing, "Honey, touching a merfolk's tail in front of them means an engagement."

Lin Juan:!!!