Chapter 1755: Mermaid Taming Guide 27

Lin Juan arrived at the sea surface under the guidance of the white whale; after all, without Jin Chen's protection, his whole body turned freezing cold once he left Mermaid City.

But as Shui Mei said, after being chosen to become the mermaid queen, this level of cold and pain was actually nothing to him, and he managed to reach where Jin Chen was.

The white whale finished its task of safely delivering the queen, then with a swoosh went after his good friend Hu Tou.

"Honey, how did you come out?"

Jin Chen quickly sensed his aura, swam to Lin Juan's side, and embraced the person who naturally opened his arms.

"Are you hurt? Let me check your back." Lin Juan didn't look toward the shore, nervously clambered onto Jin Chen's back, asked anxiously, but saw the mermaid not only not suffering, but showing a happy smile.

Fortunately the wound wasn't serious; Lin Juan almost instantly recognized it as a weapon from the Headquarters Hunting Team, and his heart sank further.

Dr. Edmund indeed had not given up on capturing Jin Chen.

"Yeah, it was them who hit me, it really hurts." Jin Chen rubbed his shoulder, smiled with pursed lips, and said, "When we go back, I'll have my wife take care of me."

"But I already chased them off, look." Jin Chen pointed triumphantly at the turbulent sea surface; the reef area was empty, and any bloodstains had long been washed away by the rainstorm.

Such a vast and magnificent sea surface should have made humans feel fearful, and moreover, the mermaid power interference was too eerie for them, so the hunting team quickly tucked tail and fled.

But when Lin Juan looked in that direction, he still saw something at the reef.

"I want to go back ashore to have a look." Lin Juan said, lowering his hand that had been gently rubbing Jin Chen's back.

"May I?"

Jin Chen suddenly stared at him with a blank face, his tone dangerous: "Not wanting to escape, just wanting to have a look?"

"I just want to have a look, I want to judge who those people are." Lin Juan's eyes were sincere.

"All right, then I'll accompany…"

"No need to accompany me; wait for me in the water, I'll be back soon."

"... hmph"

Seeing Jin Chen a little unhappy again, Lin Juan tilted his head up and kissed his smooth jawline, a silent plea.

Jin Chen declared that this honest fish of his could not possibly resist his wife's coquettishness!

He thus agreed, obediently waiting in the sea by the shore for Lin Juan to return.

Lin Juan swam to the shore, stepped on the reef where the hunting team had last left, and indeed saw something flashing with a dark red glow in the crevice.

It was a communicator that could directly link to headquarters.

Shortly after, hearing Jin Chen's dissatisfied urging, Lin Juan had no time to adjust it, slipped it into his pocket, turned back, his expression unchanged.

Jin Chen curiously poked his head out for a few glances, found nothing unusual, and with his translucent blue tail fin lazily splashing water, he patted his own chest.

"Honey, come quickly."

A look of seeking favor.

Lin Juan lowered his gaze to look at him, his eyes trembling, his expression somewhat moved, and stepped forward a few steps to throw himself into his embrace.

【Villain Heartthrob Value detected +5, total 75!】

【Host, the events from ten years ago were cleaned up really well; I linked the information networks of several states on Blue Star but still couldn't investigate the details thoroughly, yet I did discover something interesting!】

【Go ahead and tell me.】

【The rioting animal groups ten years ago were not random; they all underwent laboratory gene-screening experiments, and the person conducting the experiments was Edmund, who had assisted the villain's father back then!】

Ling Gun Gun instantly launched into conspiracy theory: 【Could it be that everything was a self-directed, self-acted farce!】

Jin Chen understood, and also grasped what Zero Egg wanted to express.

Edmund wanted, through this incident, to make the world believe that highly intelligent animals are harmful to humans, so he could then capture them without restraint for experiments.

If that were truly the case, wouldn't Lin Juan's parents' sacrifice also be part of Edmund's plan, after all they had firmly opposed the Gene Fusion Experiment?

【But for now the urgent matter is to take care of your transformation; we can handle these later.】 Ling Gun Gun added.

Jin Chen swam to Mermaid City, suddenly cupped Lin Juan's face and kissed it, sighing: "Poor wife."

Even before reaching full maturity, a mermaid can't hide anything.

Lin Juan, who was pondering how to use the communicator:?

He touched the mermaid's foolish face, a bit worried: "Did you get your brain knocked out?"

The mermaid, feeling questioned, was dissatisfied; while his human tended to his wounds, he pressed himself into the hot spring pool and kissed him for a long time.

Although Lin Juan still felt that a mermaid soaking in a hot spring sounded strange.

One day, taking advantage of Jin Chen's deep sleep, Lin Juan turned over, his back to him, opened the communicator he had picked from the reef crevice, and tried to power it on.

When he unlocked the communicator with his own password, Lin Juan already knew that finding it was no coincidence—it had been left behind by the hunting team.

Mermaid City had no signal coverage; Lin Juan didn't expect to be able to contact his teacher here, and after casually rummaging, he discovered an album named after himself.

Lin Juan's fingers holding the communicator paused; as he subsequently opened it, his pupils suddenly constricted, and he took a few hurried breaths.

Shortly after, he forced himself to look away, but the blood-red surge of memories in his heart did not subside.

It was the data and photos of that female octopus.

Normally he wouldn't even dare recall such things, yet they suddenly appeared before his eyes, as if a frame after frame of pain were flashing back, and in an instant he was returned to that ten-year-ago moment when the seconds never stopped ticking.

"What's wrong?" Jin Chen, half-asleep, sensed Lin Juan's chaotic aura, embraced him from behind, his voice still thick with sleepiness, and asked, "Another nightmare?"

"... mm."

Lin Juan turned off the communicator, hid it under a pile of gemstones, rolled over in Jin Chen's embrace, and nestled into his warm chest.

His eyes slightly red, he gazed at Jin Chen and trembled as he said, "I feel a bit cold."

"Hug me, hugging will keep you warm."

Jin Chen, eyes still closed, haphazardly pulled the blanket up, wrapped Lin Juan and stuffed him into his arms, then lowered his head to kiss his forehead.

Lin Juan exhaled softly, thinking, "Is Dr. Edmund deliberately reminding and warning me?"

——

In the following few days, Jin Chen, tired of dealing with the hunting team that came to harass him every few days, simply set up a barrier on the sea surface that Mermaid City could sense.

Let them knock on the door; anyway I can't hear it, curled up in the seashell, sleeping with my head covered!

The first day was like that, then the fifth day, the seventh day, the ……

Lin Juan felt that things were starting to go wrong.

Jin Chen was becoming increasingly drowsy.

He had no mood to further study the communicator that couldn't receive signals in Mermaid City; asking Jin Chen, he said his body felt no discomfort, and as for the specific cause, it was also unclear because the inheritance had been interrupted.

Even the mermaids themselves don't know, let alone other sea creatures.

And Lin Juan, with his knowledge and experience dealing with many highly intelligent animals, also couldn't determine what the cause was.

Sometimes he even felt that Jin Chen wasn't sleeping, but rather had entered some special state—unable to be awakened, yet not like a coma; everything he had done during that time, Jin Chen would know clearly upon waking.

Just as Lin Juan was feeling a bit at a loss, the light balls seemed to sense something, and three of the brightest-colored light orbs circled around him, as if trying to lead him somewhere.

"Are you wanting me to follow you?" Lin Juan tried to understand.

The three light orbs floated up and down, with one already rushing ahead to lead the way, a red light orb.

I don't know if it's Lin Juan's illusion, but he even saw a tiny, faint red fish tail inside the light orb.

Lin Juan turned his head to look at the mermaid with tightly closed eyes, asleep; a pure, clear halo of light streamed through the crystal window and fell upon Jin Chen's sleeping face.

"Let's go."