QWAPMP Chapter 89

Chapter 89: Merfolk Come Ashore

In the Darcy Sea Area, a steamship was continuously pulling up fishing nets from the sea. The nets were packed with seafood, a quite good haul, but none of the three people who saw this haul could manage a smile.

Tan Fei saw that the fishing net being pulled up still didn’t have the merfolk he wanted. His brows furrowed into a knot, and he asked Duke in a deep voice, “Didn’t you say that a red dot appearing on the radar meant merfolk were present? Why have so many nets been cast down, and there isn’t a single merfolk?”

Duke poured all the seafood from the net onto the deck, holding onto a sliver of hope. After all the seafood was poured out, he still didn’t see any merfolk. Only then did he brace himself and explain, “Professor Tan, merfolk aren’t that easy to catch. Last time when Professor Song and we were catching merfolk, the radar also had two reactions before we successfully caught the merfolk.”

Tony also spoke up, “Duke is right, we should be a little more patient.”

Tan Fei’s face darkened. Patience? What use was patience to him? Time waited for no one, and it didn’t wait for him. If he couldn’t catch the merfolk, was he supposed to drift on the sea forever?

“Then tell me, since the radar has no reaction now, where should we look for merfolk?”

Tony and Duke exchanged a glance. “To the Gaddelia Sea Area.”

Tan Fei knew they had caught the merfolk in that sea area before, so he didn’t object and told Cliff to sail towards the Gaddelia Sea Area.

Cliff heard the destination and took a deep drag of his cigarette. God, why did he have to go to this place again!

Poor Cliff hadn’t even spent a third of the five million US dollars in his hand before being threatened by several people with guns, forcing him to sail the ship for them.

This time there wasn’t even one million US dollars; it was a direct threat at his doorstep.

So this time, Cliff was thoroughly annoyed with Tony and Duke and couldn’t even be bothered to speak to them.

Tony and Duke chatted on the deck. Their mood for going out to sea this time was different from the last; they were both willing, because the higher-ups had explicitly told them that if the mission to catch merfolk was completed this time, they would be allowed to join the merfolk research. At that time, they would also have a share in the achievements of the merfolk research institute.

“Why do you think Professor Song ran away with the merfolk?” Duke asked, completely puzzled.

Tony shook his head. “How would I know? I’m not a professor.”

Duke sighed. “We’ve been with the professor for so long, but we don’t understand him at all.”

Tony scratched his head. “We’re doing pretty well with Professor Tan now, at least he won’t lie to us.”

Duke disagreed with him. “No, Tony, have you forgotten why we couldn’t participate in this merfolk research? It wasn’t Professor Song who lied to us, please use your pig brain.”

Tony’s face stiffened. Of course, he understood what Duke meant, but he couldn’t help but complain about Professor Song in his heart.

Tan Fei was from the higher-ups. A small nobody like Tony had no right to tell him to withdraw from the merfolk research, but he felt that Song Qiuyi was different. Since he had promised them, he should have fought for them against the higher-ups until the end.

Duke shook his head, smoothed down his clothes, and turned to enter the ship’s cabin.

Tony lowered his head and looked at the sea surface, thinking to himself, he must make progress in merfolk research to make Professor Song regret not choosing him.

Song Qiuyi’s steamship had been sailing for a few hours before it stopped. He was uneasy about Yan Ye spending time with that siren, so he wanted to go and check.

Chris was staying in a small bucket, unable to flick her tail, feeling completely uncomfortable. She looked at Yan Ye’s glass water tank with longing eyes.

Yan Ye remembered that Song Qiuyi didn’t like other sirens entering his water tank, so he paid no attention to Chris’s watery blue eyes, swimming back and forth alone in the tank. Chris couldn’t help but speak up.

“Yan Ye, can I come in? It’s too small here, I can’t even stretch out my tail,” Chris said, wrinkling her nose in strong dislike.

A clear, cold voice came from the doorway. “No.”

Chris was startled by the voice and quickly pulled back the tail she had almost flicked out.

Standing at the doorway was a tall and upright young man in the warm sun. His cold and handsome face held a hint of hostility towards the siren Chris.

If he had arrived one step later, would this female siren have already entered Yan Ye’s water tank? Would they do something strange?

Once Song Qiuyi started thinking, his mind wouldn’t stop.

Most animals have no morals. Even humans don’t necessarily have them, let alone creatures like sirens?

“When is she leaving?” Song Qiuyi asked expressionlessly. Since he couldn’t dissect her for research, keeping her was useless.

Chris heard that he wanted to chase her away and quickly waved her hands. “I won’t go in. Can you let me stay for a few more days?”

Song Qiuyi seemed not to hear her words and walked directly towards Yan Ye, looking at him with a pair of persistent eyes, waiting for his reply.

Yan Ye spoke to Song Qiuyi in a negotiating tone, “Can you let her stay for a few more days?”

After speaking, he swam to the surface and rubbed his forehead affectionately against Song Qiuyi’s forehead. Then, his lips seemed to brush lightly against his cheek as if by accident.

Song Qiuyi was pleased by his sudden action, and his eyes softened. “Alright, but she’s not allowed to enter the water tank.”

This glass water tank was built by him for his siren. Apart from him and Yan Ye, no one else was allowed to enter.

Song Qiuyi had a very strong sense of territory, even stronger than Yan Ye the siren.

When Chris heard Song Qiuyi say “Alright,” she nodded repeatedly, looking at Yan Ye, wanting him to tell this human that she would absolutely never want to enter this water tank again in the future, as long as she could stay on the ship for a few days.

Yan Ye looked at him, smiled, and nodded. “Oh, right, I haven’t introduced you to my friend. Her name is Chris!”

Song Qiuyi wasn’t interested in her, but gave Yan Ye face and nodded. “Hello, Chris.”

Chris smiled, flattered. “Hello, thank you for saving me.”

Song Qiuyi’s tone was indifferent. “I didn’t really want to save you.” In fact, he very much wanted to dissect her, but Yan Ye refused. Otherwise, this siren would definitely still be on his experiment table right now.

Chris gave an awkward smile. She felt it, this human seemed to dislike her!

“I’ll go get you something to eat.” Song Qiuyi got up and left. As he passed by the siren Chris, his steps paused, and he didn’t want to leave again, but thinking that Yan Ye hadn’t eaten anything today, he still went out to get food.

After she left, Chris’s smile became a little more natural. “Yan Ye, how did you end up with this human? I heard humans are very cunning.”

Cunning? The Song Qiuyi in the Book of Reincarnation could indeed be considered a cunning human. Even Yan Ye now couldn’t say that Song Qiuyi wasn’t a cunning human, because doing so would make Chris drop her guard against humans.