Chapter 163 - 165: Too High-Profile, Feeling Salty

Chapter 163: Chapter 165: Too High-Profile, Feeling Salty

Nantu saw Su Luoluo take a deep breath and asked, puzzled, "Luoluo, what’s wrong?"

Su Luoluo touched her face. After making sure nothing was wrong, she said casually, "It’s nothing. I just had a nightmare. It scared me to death."

"No wonder you’re soaked. I thought you were sick."

Feeling a little guilty, Su Luoluo nodded. "Yeah, that dream was terrifying."

’That damn, stinky snake. He’s scared me twice in a row now. I won’t let him get away with it next time.’

Su Luoluo’s mind raced, plotting how to get back at Xiao Ye for his teasing.

Meanwhile, Nantu, who was beside her, had been watching her the whole time. A peculiar emotion flickered in his pale blue eyes.

He didn’t know when it started, but he found that the more he looked at Su Luoluo, the more beautiful she became.

She had a very special aura that drew him in, making him want to linger.

At this moment, he noticed Su Luoluo’s face had grown much fairer, and her eyes seemed larger.

Compared to before, she seemed much gentler.

He wasn’t sure if it was because the emotions from her nightmare hadn’t completely subsided, but her chest was rising and falling dramatically, making it look even more magnificent.

He hadn’t forgotten the time he had touched it—so soft, and completely different from a Beastman’s hard chest.

At this thought, his gaze gradually deepened.

His thoughts drifted back to that previous time.

’In the sea, we mermaids also keep watch over the females and their young at night.’

’Like the Beastmen on land, we do it to protect the female and the young in her womb. But beyond that, we mermaids also form a bond with the young inside the female, allowing them to become familiar with their merman father.’

’The most common method is for the Beastman to hook his fishtail around the female’s and feel the movements of the young together.’

’But his female wasn’t a mermaid. If he were to hook her with his fishtail, it would be all too easy to mate with her.’

’Mating with a female during the first few months of her pregnancy is fine.’

’But should he start now?’

Nantu hesitated.

After pondering for a while without coming up with a good way to get back at Xiao Ye, Su Luoluo decided to deal with it tomorrow.

She pulled the beast skin blanket over herself, ready to sleep.

As she turned over, she saw Nantu staring at her with his aqua-blue eyes.

Su Luoluo flinched, belatedly realizing that she wasn’t sleeping alone tonight.

She was so used to sleeping alone that with someone suddenly there, she had simply forgotten.

Su Luoluo thought for a moment, then pulled up the beast skin blanket and offered half to Nantu. "It’s getting late. We should get some sleep."

Nantu had just been agonizing over how to initiate the next step with Su Luoluo, so he was surprised when she spoke up first.

His expression instantly relaxed. After lying down, he let the lower half of his body transform into a fishtail, and then hooked it around Su Luoluo’s ankles.

Su Luoluo had her eyes closed and was just about to drift off to sleep when she suddenly felt something icy and cool wrap tightly around her legs.

Most alarmingly, it was wriggling, seemingly trying to inch its way upward.

A shiver ran down Su Luoluo’s spine.

She threw back the blanket to look down at her lower body. After confirming it was an ice-blue fishtail, she breathed a sigh of relief. For a moment, she’d thought Xiao Ye had returned for a second round.

She was still deeply unnerved by him.

Her relief lasted only a moment, however, before she stiffened again. ’Wait, this is a fishtail.’

’Nantu... is he...?’

’This is going to be the death of me.’

’Back when she was upgrading her Filter Brain, she had tried everything she could think of to romance these Beastmen.’

’Now that she wasn’t in a hurry to do *that*, they were all flocking to her one after another.’

’Do these guys think I have endless stamina?’

’Have they forgotten I’m pregnant?’

Nantu saw Su Luoluo throw back the blanket, and a faint blush appeared on her fair face, making him feel a bit sheepish.

But a moment later, he composed himself.

’His fishtail is so beautiful,’ he thought. ’Su Luoluo will definitely like it.’

And, emboldened by her throwing back the blanket, his movements grew bolder.

Seeing that he was about to go further, Su Luoluo quickly said, "Nantu, I heard you mermaids can sing. Is that true?"

Hearing Su Luoluo’s question, Nantu stopped and nodded earnestly. "It’s true. All of us mermaids can sing."

’What a pure and well-behaved little mermaid,’ she thought. ’All I had to do was ask a question, and he answered right away and even stopped what he was doing.’

’Compared to that cold and sinister snake, Xiao Ye, the little mermaid in front of her was so much easier to deal with.’

’How could I ever have thought he was difficult to get along with?’

’Maybe it was because he was too obsessed with "high-tech" things, which made him seem unapproachable and cold.’

Now that she was getting to know him, Su Luoluo found Nantu to be truly pure and simple.

’He was like one of those academic types from the Post-apocalypse—obsessed with technology, but a simple person at heart.’

"Then could you sing a song for me? I had a nightmare, and I’m having trouble sleeping," Su Luoluo said, feigning a gentle tone.

People only knew that a mermaid’s song could Charm People’s Heart, but few realized it could also soothe a person’s emotions.

Nantu agreed without a second thought. "Then I’ll sing you a soothing song! Your forehead is all wet from the nightmare. This is the best thing for that."

Su Luoluo nodded, though she felt a pang of guilt. ’What kind of scumbag am I, tricking such a pure and innocent little mermaid like this?’

After speaking, Nantu drew his fishtail back, began to float in mid-air, and, facing the moonlight, started to sing a beautiful song.

"In the quiet of night... the moon goddess gently strokes your face... fear not, and quickly fall asleep..."

This was the first time Su Luoluo had ever heard a mermaid sing, and the voice was every bit as wonderful as the legends described.

The voice was ethereal and melodious, as if it had descended from the heavens.

It was truly the voice of an angel.

As Nantu sang, his entire body was bathed in moonlight. His blue fishtail shimmered with an iridescent glow, making him look like a sacred spirit.

To Su Luoluo’s eyes, he seemed to sparkle and shine.

’It’s so beautiful,’ she thought.

’No wonder they say listening to a mermaid sing is a true pleasure.’

’It’s a feast for the eyes and ears. Absolutely beautiful.’

The ethereal voice passed through the wooden cabin, drifting out into the air and into the small cabins nearby.

Mo Xuan was already tossing and turning on his wooden plank bed, unable to sleep because Nantu was the one keeping watch over Su Luoluo.

Now, hearing this beautiful singing, he grew even more irritated.

’That Nantu is full of tricks,’ he fumed. ’Just keeping watch isn’t enough, he has to start singing? Is he afraid the rest of us don’t know he’s on duty with Su Luoluo tonight?’

’Just wait until it’s my turn. I’ll make them all squirm, and I’ll make sure the bed goes CREAK CREAK CREAK.’

Xiao Ye had been drifting off to sleep with a smile on his face. He’d just finished teasing Su Luoluo, and he figured that after tonight, she wouldn’t be so bold as to take on a new Beastman behind their backs.

But then, the singing began.

Such a beautiful song made his recently calmed heart begin to churn wildly once more.

’She really has a lot of energy,’ he thought. ’One moment she’s scared out of her wits, and the next she’s enjoying a song.’

’Looks like I’ll have to try harder next time. After all, she clearly has plenty of energy to spare.’