Chapter 105: Side Story: Little Jiaoren Raising Little Fish 2
The great white shark was temporarily attracted by the fish that Xixi had dropped. It opened its bloody maw and swallowed the half of the small fish he had left with a roar, and even the current was sucked in.
Its lantern-like, yellowish-brown eyes were searching the sea area with suspicion, and a low roar could be heard.
It was extremely terrifying.
But the two small fish that had just been in front of it had strangely disappeared.
The merman cub was dragged by the silver Jiaoren cub and hidden in a crevice in the reef. After being glared at by the other with narrowed eyes, he strangely understood the other’s meaning, covered his own mouth with both hands, and shook his head.
His blue eyes seemed to be saying, Xixi is super well-behaved and won’t speak to attract the big fish!
But the silver Jiaoren cub noticed something, flicked his tail fin and swam over. In Xixi’s clueless line of sight, he pulled down the merman cub’s hand that was covering his own mouth, and with a frown, he used his own small hand to wipe the residual fish blood from the corner of the little merman’s mouth.
He was afraid that this bit of blood would attract the shark.
It was the first time Xixi had had his mouth wiped by someone. He foolishly curved his eyes and was about to say “thank you” when his mouth was covered by a hand the next second.
Ah! He had forgotten. He couldn’t speak now.
They had hidden in the crevice for a long time before the great white shark had left. The golden-haired, blue-tailed merman cub was clinging to the reef, peeking out cautiously. He flicked his tail and moved closer, and whispered in the little silver cub’s ear, “What kind of fish is that?”
So fierce.
It looked like it would eat a merman.
The silver Jiaoren cub replied coldly, “That’s a great white shark. If we’re caught by it, we’ll be swallowed in one bite.”
Xixi was stunned for a moment, then reacted. “It wants to eat us?”
The silver Jiaoren cub nodded coolly.
Xixi shook his head. “But Xixi is not delicious. It can’t eat us.”
“That clump of seaweed is so disgusting, but you still ate it. As long as you’re hungry, there’s nothing you can’t eat.” The little silver Jiaoren didn’t know why he was arguing with this stupid fish about such a boring thing.
Just as he finished speaking, he found that the little stupid fish in front of him had suddenly sniffled, and his voice was muffled. “It’s not disgusting.”
Xixi’s eyes began to turn red. “My seaweed cake is not disgusting at all!” The grievance of having no one to celebrate his shell-hatching day suddenly welled up. Because of his sob, the cub’s voice became slurred. “I can’t catch any fish. I spent a long, long time making it. It’s not disgusting.”
The little silver Jiaoren was stunned on the spot, as if he were a little at a loss.
Xixi rubbed his eyes and sobbed incoherently, “I know, I know fishies are delicious, but I, I can’t eat them. I can only eat clumps.”
Because Xixi was the last little merman left in the merman clan, no one would catch delicious fish for him. He had to spend his shell-hatching day all alone, and could only get by with a few disgusting seaweed clumps.
If he hadn’t met the little silver Jiaoren today, Xixi, who had met a great white shark by himself, would probably have been scared to tears in the fish’s mouth.
He couldn’t flick his tail, couldn’t outswim the shark, and couldn’t even run away.
Even if the great white shark wouldn’t eat him because of the merman’s natural affinity, Xixi would, on his shell-hatching day, be so scared that he wouldn’t dare to go home. He would hug his fish tail and curl up alone in a crevice in the reef, trembling with fear.
He would have to wait for a long, long time after the great white shark had swum away before he would dare to swim out alone and swim back to the merman’s inheritance ground. He didn’t know when he would muster the courage to come out again.
The little silver Jiaoren asked a little uncomfortably, “What’s a shell-hatching day?”
Xixi said with a sob, “It’s the day I was born from an eggshell.”
The little silver Jiaoren: “Eggshell?”
He replied coldly, “Oh. It’s your birthday, right?”
Xixi nodded his head.
Before he could react, his little hand was suddenly held by the little silver Jiaoren, and he was led out of the crevice under the reef.
The silver Jiaoren cub snorted coldly and said, “It’s just a few fish. Watch me catch them for you. Don’t cry.”
“Stupid.”
So stupid that he couldn’t even tell if he was his kinsman or not. The Jiaoren clan was not born from eggshells.
