QWAPMP Chapter 68

Chapter 68: Merperson Comes Ashore

After living out a lifetime with Song Yang, Yan Ye returned.

A thread of golden light drifted out from the page of the Book of Reincarnation. Yan Ye quietly watched the golden thread before him, then actively raised his finger to touch it. With a whoosh, the golden thread drilled into his body.

The emotions from several worlds surged up at this moment, including Yan Ye’s affection and reluctance towards that person.

At first, he self-deceptively thought it was because of the golden thread that he cared so much about Song Xi and protected him so much, which was why he entered Song Yang’s world only after extracting the golden thread.

Finally, Yan Ye discovered that even without the golden thread, although he didn’t protect that person as much as before, he still treated him differently from others.

For example, if the male lead of a world and Song Yang were injured, for the former, Yan Ye would only kindly remind him, “You are injured.”

But for Song Yang, he might take the person to treat the wound, then ask why he was injured and who injured him, and so on.

Having figured this out, Yan Ye did not stop the golden thread from drilling into his body this time, choosing to accept his thread of emotion and his scarce feelings.

With the thread of emotion, Yan Ye finally gained a hint of warmth, and the gentle smile on his face was an anticipation of meeting a certain person in the next world.

After half a month of drifting, the steamship finally reached the Gadrelia Sea Area. Huge fishing nets were cast into the sea, sinking to the bottom at a speed visible to the naked eye.

In the cabin, a young man dressed in a white robe was staring at the monitor in front of him. Seeing that the detector and radar had no response, he did not show a disappointed expression, because this was just the first day they entered the legendary sea area where merpeople were said to exist.

Ten years ago, an adventurer claimed to have seen creatures resembling a human upper body and a fish tail lower body in the Gadrelia Sea Area, and even took a very blurry photo.

The photo was so blurry that almost all netizens didn’t believe his words, thinking he had run out of money for adventures and was trying to gain popularity online to scam money.

Of course, Song Qiu Yi’s presence here today was thanks to his teacher, Professor Yang. At that time, when everyone else didn’t believe the photo online, only he found the adventurer and bought information about merpeople from him at a high price. Although there wasn’t much useful information, it was enough to make him madly search for them.

Professor Yang went to search for merpeople and was gone for ten years, never to return. Many who knew him believed he had disappeared, and even his most promising student, Song Qiu Yi, thought so.

Until half a month ago, Song Qiu Yi received news that his teacher’s wife was critically ill. When he went to visit his teacher’s wife, she handed him a diary of her teacher, which contained information about merpeople.

When Song Qiu Yi heard about merpeople, a ripple appeared in his calm eyes. Like his teacher, they were both very interested in merpeople, an interest that surpassed death!

The diary had only a few thin pages of records about merpeople, but that was enough for Song Qiu Yi to read for a day and a night. The next day, he couldn’t wait to apply to the higher-ups to go out to sea and search for the whereabouts of merpeople.

Like his teacher, Song Qiu Yi, under the disapproving and disbelieving eyes of others, took two researchers under him and embarked on the journey to find merpeople.

In the deep sea, an octopus that was hunting suddenly sprayed a cloud of ink backward, trying to escape. Before it could swim even two meters, a dark, shimmering tail whipped towards it.

The octopus was knocked unconscious, and even the red coral trees nearby weren’t spared, being directly split in two, showing the power of this tail.

When the merperson was feeding, other creatures dared not approach, fearing they would end up like the octopus.

In this deep sea, merfolk had no natural predators. Their powerful tails were enough to swat any creature to death.

Indeed, Yan Ye had already tried it. With just a light flick of his tail, he obtained a meal.

He had been in this world for two days and was already familiar with this sea area. This place was once the territory of the male lead, Owen. Solitary merfolk were very protective of their territories, and besides him, only the female lead, Kexi, was allowed entry.

According to the Book of Reincarnation, the male lead had left the Gadrelia Sea Area over twenty years ago and was currently still missing.

And soon after, the sea surface would face a storm. The female lead, Kexi, also encountered a massive squid. To kill the squid, Kexi was severely injured and therefore had to enter the Gadrelia Sea Area to avoid the storm.

The male supporting character saw the female lead during this storm. Although it was just a silhouette in the rain and mist, it confirmed the existence of merpeople to him.

Similarly, the female lead also saw him and became very interested in him, forgetting the ancestral teaching of merfolk to stay away from humans. She secretly approached the male supporting character’s ship and, under his intentionalinducement/guidance – here implies trickery or leading, was caught by his fishing net and brought ashore.

The female lead, confined in a tank, was not harmed. Instead, she was meticulously cared for by the male supporting character, which made her let down her guard. The first human language she spoke was, “I know you, you saved me.”

It was this sentence that made the male supporting character certain that the merperson tangled in a fishing net he saw twenty years ago while playing by the sea with his parents was real and not his imagination.

Unfortunately, at that time, he wanted to call his parents to see, but by the time he called them over, the merperson had disappeared.

His parents at that time just pretended to be angry and patted his palm, telling him that lying was wrong.

To keep the female lead, the male supporting character did not deny saving her. Because of this, Kexi followed him away from the Gadrelia Sea Area and was sent to a research institute, where she was imprisoned for three years. Until she could no longer endure the torment of the institute, she used her singing to lure a researcher who delivered meals, then killed him with her tail, found the male supporting character, and died with him.

Seeing Kexi choose to die with the male supporting character, Yan Ye was not surprised. Because the research institute was too far from the sea, Kexi, being a merperson without legs, could not escape even if she didn’t kill.

And the male supporting character was a fanatic about researching merpeople and would never allow the merperson to escape back to the sea.

Therefore, dying with him was the only option for Kexi to get revenge.

The sky above the sea was covered with dark clouds. Raindrops as big as beans began to pound the sea surface, instantly merging with the seawater. The creatures in the ocean seemed to sense the approaching storm and all swam towards the deep sea.

Not far away, a shimmering tail leaped up with the waves, disappearing into the sea surface in the blink of an eye, making it hard to believe, even causing one to doubt if they had imagined it.

It was raining. Song Qiu Yi was originally called into the ship’s cabin by the researchers under him to shelter from the rain. However, the moment he turned back, a dazzling light peeled back layers of clouds and mist and burst into his eyes.

“So it wasn’t a dream, there really are merpeople!” Song Qiu Yi murmured to himself. The next second, he loudly ordered the fishing nets to be cast in the direction he had just seen, and then he ran into the cabin to look at the equipment, attempting to see traces of the merperson on them.

Outside, the sky was overcast, and there was a fierce storm. The ship began to sway with the waves. Duke Felton stood steadily with difficulty, grabbing onto something that could steady him, only then noticing that the normally indifferent eyes of their professor were flickering with urgency.

He disregarded the assault of the storm outside and gave orders for the ship to head towards a sea area with more hidden reefs.

Cliff, the only one who could sail, disagreed. He knew that driving the ship towards the hidden reefs in such severe weather was a suicidal act. Thinking of his wife and children at home, he refused.

Song Qiu Yi stared intently at the radar, “If you sail the ship over there, I’ll give you an additional three million US dollars!”

He believed that facing the temptation of money, this man who took them out to sea for a living had no reason to refuse.

When Cliff heard three million US dollars, he couldn’t help but inwardly lament the extravagance of rich people. At the same time, he was already thinking about how to spend this three million US dollars.

Duke swallowed hard, a shudder going through him, “No, Professor Song, this is too dangerous!”

The other researcher agreed with his colleague, “Perhaps we can wait for the storm to pass before having Cliff sail the ship.”

Song Qiu Yi’s attitude was firm, “If you don’t want this trip to be in vain, listen to me.”

Both of them held positions lower than Song Qiu Yi at the research institute and worked under him. Faced with such a forceful Song Qiu Yi, Duke reluctantly agreed, “Okay, God will protect us, right?”

Tony chuckled, “Let’s hope so!”