The Little Mermaid Fell for the Jiaoren 106

Chapter 106: Side Story: Little Jiaoren Raising Little Fish 3

The Jiaoren cub had been abducted and sold.

E Star was often in a state of war. When people were in chaos, besides the Zerg invasion, illegal elements were everywhere.

It was just by chance that the star pirates’ flying ship had stopped on this planet that was all ocean and no land. The little silver Jiaoren, who was still in his human form, had taken advantage of the star pirates’ inattention and had leaped into the ocean. In an instant, he had transformed into his silver tail. Relying on the Jiaoren’s outstanding swimming speed, he had disappeared under the surface of the sea in a short while.

By the time the star pirates had discovered it, the silver-haired cub they had captured had already disappeared. The little silver Jiaoren had observed in secret for two days. Seeing that the star pirates felt that the planet’s energy was too barren and that they couldn’t find him, they had transformed into a flying ship and had flown away from the planet. Only then had he completely relaxed.

The little silver Jiaoren had not transformed into his fish tail many times and was not yet proficient in using his tough and sharp tail fin and his sharp claws.

His fishing skills were also a bit rusty.

In short, he was not much better than the little merman.

Xixi was holding the seaweed clump cake he had made and was lying on the side of the reef, watching the little silver Jiaoren wait for the “fish.”

They had waited for a long time, but not a single fish had appeared in this sea area.

The Jiaoren cub uncomfortably turned his face away. “Wait, I’ll go to another place to catch.”

There had been fish here just now. How had they all run away in the blink of an eye?

Xixi picked up his little cake and, like a little tail, followed behind the little silver Jiaoren. “Wait, wait for me.”

The merman cub swayed his tail. “I’ll go with big brother too!”

The Jiaoren cub’s swimming speed slowly slowed down. After a long while, he asked with a cold face, dawdling, “What did you just call me?”

Xixi tilted his head, thought for a moment, and tentatively called out, “Big brother?”

The little merman was still too young. When his last syllable was drawn out, it sounded sticky, clear, and sweet.

The tips of the little silver Jiaoren’s ears turned red. “What’s your name?”

Xixi replied obediently, “My name is Xixi.”

The little silver Jiaoren snorted. “I know.”

Xixi went to pull the little silver Jiaoren’s hand. “There are no fishies here. When that big fish came just now, they all ran away!” The merman cub closed his eyes, sensed the scent in the deep sea, and nodded his head, indicating that he was not wrong.

A merman’s affinity and sixth sense allowed Xixi to roughly sense the sea creatures in this sea area. Although it was very weak, it was still very easy to tell if there were any edible fishies here.

The little silver Jiaoren looked at the merman cub suspiciously.

Xixi volunteered, “I know where the fishies are.”

He took the initiative to grab the little silver Jiaoren’s hand and led the silver Jiaoren cub, who had inexplicably stiffened after his hand was held, away from this sea area.

There were no fish in this sea area, so there must be some in the neighboring sea area. Xixi nodded his head and, relying on his intuition, swam east for a while, and then west for a while, almost making the little silver Jiaoren dizzy.

Not long after, the merman cub stopped. “The water is getting warmer.”

He was referring to the fact that the temperature of the seawater in the sea area they were currently passing through had risen. The little merman did not know what an ocean current convergence was. He only knew that in a place where the seawater was a little warmer, there must be fishies.

After passing through this reef, the silver Jiaoren cub smelled the fishy smell that was unique to a school of fish. He held Xixi’s hand in return and, with a flick of his tail fin, he suddenly swam out. Before him, a school of fish in a vortex shape suddenly appeared.

He had really found it by chance.

“Stay here and don’t move.” The little silver Jiaoren instructed. Under Xixi’s admiring gaze, he revealed the sharp claws in his hand. With a flick of his fish tail, he swam out and, at the same time, simply made a cut in the current, and fish blood appeared.

Wow, so amazing.

Xixi blinked his starry eyes. Why didn’t he have such sharp claws? He lowered his head and held up his small hand to look.

A merman cub’s hand was short, and his nails were also flat. They would not, like the little silver Jiaoren, grow sharp claws at will.

Big brother could use his claws to tear open a fish’s belly, but it was difficult for him to even pull up a clump of seaweed. Xixi thought, he also wanted to be as amazing as big brother.

Ah! His clump cake!

Xixi, who had raised his hand to look at his claws, only then discovered the small seaweed cake that had floated down to the seabed after he had let go of his hand.

The merman cub anxiously swayed his fish tail and also dived down with the falling clump cake. But because his hands were short, he could never touch it, until he had dived deeper and deeper.

Finally, the seaweed clump cake that Xixi had made fell on top of a reef on the seabed.

Xixi struggled to extend his short little hands. He had finally managed to hold his little cake, and he let out a long sigh of relief. Then, he belatedly and dazedly looked at the unfamiliar surroundings. “Big brother?”

Big brother was gone, and he was also gone.

Xixi didn’t know where he had swum to. All around him were huge reefs and deep seaweed. The cold seabed was dark.

He cautiously trembled his gills, sniffled, and smelled a strange smell in the seawater.

A cub’s curiosity was always the strongest. Xixi sniffed with the tip of his nose and slowly followed the smell, drilling into the tall seaweed and the winding reef tunnels.

As the smell grew stronger.

Xixi had to cover his little nose.

It stank.

He lay behind a reef and secretly poked his little head out. On a sandy patch on the seabed, a skeleton that was more than half-rotten was quietly placed. The seaweed had all been crushed. If it were still alive, it must have been a very, very big fish.

As big as the very fierce big fish just now.

Beside this skeleton, there was also a small fish, about three times the size of Xixi, long and thin, as if it had just been born a few months ago.

“It’s a little dolphin!” Xixi’s eyes lit up. In his inherited memories, the dolphin and whale races were both good friends of their merman clan.

That little dolphin was constantly nudging that skeleton, and was also using its fins to push some fresh little fish that had just died not long ago, which were piled up on the sandy seabed.

At a glance, it was a little fish that had just been hunted.

The little dolphin was letting out a low cry, looking a little anxious. Xixi didn’t know why, but he felt that the little dolphin seemed very unhappy.

“Why did you sneak away?” A cold voice suddenly sounded from behind Xixi. It sounded a little angry, and also had a hint of anxiety and panic.

Xixi was startled. He turned his head and found that it was the little silver Jiaoren who had come to find him. Faced with the silver Jiaoren cub’s fierce questioning, Xixi instead “wow”-ed. “Brother is so amazing, you found me.”

So stupid.

The little silver Jiaoren said in his heart.

Xixi obediently shook his head. “I didn’t run away. The clump, it fell down. I went to find it, and then I came here.” He held up the seaweed clump cake in his hand and showed it to the little silver Jiaoren.

Because Xixi had eaten a little, and the silver Jiaoren cub had also eaten a little, and another layer had fallen off while he was swimming, now only the base, which was rolled up by six stalks of seaweed, was left.

The silver Jiaoren cub was holding a fish he had just caught. He had just turned his head and had found that the side of the reef was empty. Xixi was gone.

The ocean was very dangerous. The silver Jiaoren cub, who had been living alone in the deep sea for a few days, had already understood how terrifying the sea creatures here were. He was afraid that Xixi had been caught by another fish.

He had followed the residual scent in the seawater all the way here.

The little silver Jiaoren still looked a little scared. “Do you know how dangerous it is here—”

Xixi pulled the little silver Jiaoren’s hand. “Brother, don’t be angry. I won’t run around next time.”

The little silver Jiaoren, who had been interrupted, snorted coldly again. “There won’t be a next time.”

Xixi dazedly repeated, “There won’t be a next time!”

Soon, the cubs, who were not good at remembering things, had thrown this little misunderstanding to the back of their minds. Xixi had the silver Jiaoren cub look behind the reef. “Brother, look, a little dolphin.”

“What is it doing?”

The little silver Jiaoren glanced at it and was quiet for a while before he said in a muffled voice, “That dolphin wants to give the fish it just found to that big dolphin to eat.”

Xixi asked in confusion, “A big dolphin? There’s only one dolphin.”

The little silver Jiaoren pointed at the skeleton that was rotting and giving off a stench. “That’s the big dolphin.”

Xixi retorted, “Big brother is wrong. A dolphin doesn’t look like that.”

“That’s because that dolphin is already dead.” After the little silver Jiaoren had finished speaking, he uncomfortably turned his face away.

Xixi was stunned for a moment, then raised his little face. “I know! Did the big dolphin go to the sky?” He said, “The inherited memories say that our other kinsmen have all gone to the sky.”

“I see them on the surface of the sea every night.”

The sparkling stars in the night sky were the other mermen that were mentioned in his memories.

The little silver Jiaoren was silent for a moment and did not refute Xixi’s childish language. He changed the subject. “That big dolphin should be his mother, right?”

The little dolphin thought that if he hunted for food and gave it to his mother to eat, his mother would swim again.

Xixi thought for a moment. “Then the little dolphin’s mother has gone to the sky, and he’s the only one left in the ocean. Will he be very lonely?” He curved his eyelids, and the merman cub’s blue eyes were clear and bright. “Brother, shall we go and be friends with it?”