This Quick Transmigration Experience Is A Bit Sweet Chapter 40
Chapter 40: His Merman
The merman fed the humans, and it did a very good job.
Gifts that were not accepted by the humans rolled back into the sea. Overnight it rushed from the An’na’er Sea to the northernmost Arctic sea to capture the most suitable delicacies for the human stomach.
All creatures hurriedly avoided the direction it was going in.
Thin frost appeared on the handsome face of the merman. The temperature of the Arctic sea was terribly low, and the speed it swung its fish tail was noticeable slower to the naked eye.
The marine animals living in the Arctic sea had a delicious taste that was unique to this place.
It hated the cold sea, but its humans should like the food here.
Zong Yuan arrived at the beach when the sun shone the first rays of light. He squatted on the beach and swirled the seawater with a tree branch. "Little idiot?"
After waiting for a few minutes, there was still no response. 0046 asked, "Could it still be sleeping?"
Who knows if a merman could sleep or not.
Zong Yuan stared at the sea with keen eyes and saw the slightly undulating surface of the sea, "It’s coming."
The merman stuck its head out, and for once, it didn’t approach Zong Yuan, but instead, with the help of the sea's waves, it pushed forward the gifts it found towards Zong Yuan's side.
Then it revealed only a pair of eyes to stare at him.
It looked like a young man shyly hiding after making a confession.
An object more than half a meter long rushed to Zong Yuan, almost knocking him down.
"What is this?"
The thing looked strange. Its entire body was smooth and slippery, and when touched, it felt like a piece of ice that was emanating warmth from deep within. However, it did not have any eyes nor mouth. It was flat and it looked like a slab of meat that heaved as it breathed.
0046 tried to search it up, but after a while it was bewildered, "Can't find it."
Zong Yuan held this thing, as if he was holding a piece of tender tofu. Hhe looked at the merman with a weird expression, "A gift?"
The merman gave a low cry, hesitating, "Daddy..."
The merman was telling him that it was food.
Zong Yuan was very bold when handling this kind of undersea creature that didn’t have scales and dead fish eyes. The merman said that he could eat it, so he immediately began to think about how to eat it.
There was only fire, but no pot, and not even a single ingredient.
Zong Yuan pondered for a while and asked 0046, "How can sea salt be extracted?"
"...", 0046, "Don't joke around."
Zong Yuan, "Do I sound like I’m joking?"
0046 finally pointed a clear path to him, "Herbivores themselves also need salt. They often lick the rocks on the southern part of the island. That is their salt replenishment area. You can go there and check it out."
Zong Yuan nodded and said to the merman who showed only one its eye: "Come on, follow Daddy to the southside."
0046 was still useful.
Zong Yuan found a clean place on the corner of the rock and washed it several times, "Can this powder be eaten?"
He won’t die from eating it anyway. The amount was so little that it won’t even affect the function of lungs. 0046 replied affirmatively, "Yes!"
Zong Yuan started a fire deliberately near the sea. The merman stood nearby, watching his movements quietly.
Zong Yuan tried his best to ignore its big fishtail, and under 0046’s instructions, he found many substitutes that could be used as condiments.
Honestly speaking, after not eating properly for two to three days, he was really hungry.
Zong Yuan stared at the merman's face and hugged the meat and walked over while looking straight at, "Come on, babe, cut right here."
He took the merman's hand and guided it.
The merman looked at him lazily, and it didn't want to move at all. Zong Yuan was really understanding. He kissed its pale and smooth hand, "Babe, cut this for daddy."
Its fingers moved slightly, and in the next second, the meat he was holding in his arms became two halves. Zong Yuan looked at the smooth cut, "Tsk tsk tsk. Wait for your husband to make a good meal for you."
He had no idea if it would taste good or not, but at least it wouldn’t be raw.
Zong Yuan had never selected the skill of cooking. He skewered the two halves of the meat onto the prepared branches, randomly placed them on the fireside and began to roast them. Who cared about the strength of the fire? He sprinkled all of the condiment substitutes he found onto the meat all at once.
Despite not putting in much effort, it still released a smell so fragrant that it made people drool.
The fire-grilled meat sizzled, and the fat in the meat flowed out to the surface, and it was moist and glistening with oil. It was unknown what were the effects of the condiments Zong Yuan found, but there was a fruity scent mixed in with the fragrant spicy smell.
Zong Yuan swallowed as he tried to maintain his charisma.
The merman's gaze had moved from him to that piece of flesh. Its nose moved slightly, and its eyes suddenly turned bright. Following the rising water levels, it moved to Zong Yuan's side.
It called out: "Daddy..."
What it meant was, human, I want to eat.
Zong Yuan thought that it was acting cutesy. "Hmm, it will be ready soon."
The merman stared at the meat intently. Warm light from the fire reflected off its face, and this erased away its monster-like traits. It was so fragrant.
When it was almost done, Zong Yuan kicked the fire to extinguish it. Before he picked up the meat that was skewered on the branch from the ground, a layer of water covered his feet. The merman quickly passed by him, and like a hungry tiger eating a wolf, it grabbed onto the hot meat and bit into it.
Zong Yuan was shocked, "It’s hot!"
The merman's sharp teeth came out, and it fiercely tore the steaming meat with its hands. It didn’t feel the burning temperature at all.
Its eyes turned brighter and brighter. It wished that it could chew the meat along with the branch.
Zong Yuan breathed a sigh of relief, and he felt a bit satisfied, "Is it that delicious?"
He tore off a small piece of meat and he immediately stuffed it into his mouth, "...Oh sh*t!"
The meat was smooth and tender and it melted in the mouth. The taste was peculiar. The crude condiments brought out the deliciousness of the meat. The warmth from inside to outside and the heat from outside to inside produced an incredible chemical reaction.
Zong Yuan couldn't believe it as he ate, "Do I have this damn talent?"
After the merman had eaten its share, it licked his fingers and moved its eyes to Zong Yuan's hand.
Zong Yuan's human appetite ws much smaller than it, "Say daddy."
The merman obediently called the human’s name, "Daddy."
It was so obedient and focused, Zong Yuan suddenly felt guilty, "Ah, daddy’s name is Zong Yuan. Call me Zong Yuan. Zong-Yuan. If you say it correctly, I’ll give it to you."
Zong Yuan.
These two words seemed to have some magical power and it directly caused the merman to shift its entire attention to these two words. It stared at Zong Yuan's eyes and said it correctly again and again, "Zong Yuan."
The heart of the person who was called skipped a beat.
By the time Zong Yuan snapped back to his senses, the merman had eaten his share, and was tired so it planned to dive back into the sea.
Zong Yuan subconsciously stopped it, "Wait."
The merman's tail stopped, and it narrowed its eyes into a tiny slit. Zong Yuan made up his mind and stretched out his hand tremblingly to touch its tail.
The merman didn't know what he was going to do, but it cooperated with his movements extremely dotingly.
While the turbulent emotion in his heart was still there, Zong Yuan closed his eyes, gritted his teeth, and touched a small fish scale with the tip of his finger.
His mind was blank. The scale that he touched with his fingertip felt ice-cold and hard, like a piece of iron.
He stayed in this position for a long time.
His lover was a fish, and he was afraid of fish. How could he be afraid of his lover?
His lover loves him, protects him, won’t hurt him, but how could he stay away from his lover just because of its fish tail?
After a long time, Zong Yuan placed down his hand and met the merman’s eyes. He slowly moved closely to it. Although the merman had an advantage over him because of its fishtail, his aura of a ‘top’ could overcome everything. Zong Yuan grabbed onto a lock of its curled hair and forced it to bend over. "Go to sleep, I’ll see you tonight."
His voice was so gentle that water almost seeped out of his voice.
The merman experienced the feeling of being mesmerized by his sounds. It dove into the bottom of the sea in a trance, and fell asleep with its mind completely surrounded by Zong Yuan’s voice.
0046 looked at Zong Yuan standing in place, "You thought it through?"
Zong Yuan waited until he couldn't see the merman anymore before he sat on the rock next to him. He let out a sigh of relief, "It's better now."
Even if he could imagine the merman’s scales to be iron plates, it was still impossible to easily overcome his fear when he saw the scales.
They were talking when a sudden scream from the top of the mountain was heard. Zong Yuan's expression changed and he rushed to the top of the mountain.
What happened? !
He ran to the top of the mountain in one go. The rest of the people were standing in a circle with their faces pale. Zong Yuan calmed down his breath, "What's the matter?"
The suitman turned his head slowly, with fear on his face, "Someone, someone died..."
Zong Yuan's heart sank. He pushed his way through the crowd and looked inside---the one who died was a female. She never talked much and didn’t leave much of an impression. The way she died was extremely brutal. There was a thumb-sized hole in her neck, her lower abdomen was cut open and her blood covered the entire ground.
Their faces were deathly pale; not only were they scared, but also disgusted.
Zong Yuan frowned, "It's not because of a wild animal, there’s no evidence of being eaten on her body."
The other remaining lady hugged herself as she trembled, and asked nervously, "How could it be a wild animal! There aren't any large carnivores here! No, no wait. It’s that merman! That merman must have done it!"
"The next---the next person to die...will it be me..."
Zong Yuan looked around with a cold expression on his face, "Are you saying that a merman, who can only stay in the water, went to the top of the mountain and killed her?"
The woman suddenly thought of this, and she was in a daze, "Then who could it be?"
Zong Yuan asked 0046 to take a look, and 0046 took a rough look, "No, this blood volume is not right."
How could the arteries in the neck only have this amount of blood?
Zong Yuan's eyelids twitched, "The blood was drunk? Or is this not the actual crime scene?"
He looked around. There was only blood in this area.
Another man said, "If there are mermans, then there must be other monsters!"
Zong Yuan was taken aback, and he thought about it carefully, "It's possible."
Actually, he had already denied this idea in his heart. The merman was his lover, and he knows his lover’s personality clearly. It would only put him in its territory.
But he could not completely rule out that another kind of creature is trying to steal territory.
The group of people panicked. The woman subconsciously hid behind Zong Yuan, who seemed the most reassuring, "What-- what should we do?!"
She was definitely murdered! Who knows if she will die next? !
Zong Yuan pursed his lower lip, "Leave as soon as possible."
They have been on this island for less than three days, and they all seem to be aged by ten years old. This won’t work, absolutely not.
Even if it weren’t for the mission, Zong Yuan could not watch them die since they developed a type of bond due to escaping together.
The suit man squatted on the ground holding his head in despair, "How do we leave? We simply can't!"
Zong Yuan looked at them, he glanced at their faces one by one. With a confident demeanor, he tried to convince them, "Trust me. You guys need to make sure that you're well fed and hydrated. You don't want to collapse before you get back."
They were soothed by Zong Yuan's gaze and determination, "Then--then we're going to wait for your good news!"
An amazing man that could handle a merman must not be an ordinary person.
Zong Yuan made an 'ok' hand gesture. When the atmosphere finally eased down, and he and the other people found a place to bury the dead woman.
0046 has been looking for details, "Huh?"
Zong Yuan was wary, "What's wrong?"
There was a pinch mark on the woman's hand. 0046 thought for a while, "Nothing."
It may have been accidentally caused by other people just now when they moved her.
Others didn't know why Zong Yuan insisted on making them go back. However, Zong Yuan knew what gave him confidence. His only confidence came from his merman.
Why hasn't his merman bring over a boat yet?
Author's Note
The author has something to say: The herbivores in the story regularly consumes salt, but they're large herbivores! Elephants, goats, something like those! Even inhaling stone powder is not good for the body, it will affect the kidney function! [doge face]. If you want to survive in the wild, bring salt in advance! [Go read your fortune and predict when you have to survive in the wild muahaha]
There is a lot of misinformation in the text! Don't copy Brother Zong! Sooner or later, it will kill you!
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Thank you for the chapter!! Brother Zong jiayou!
ReplyDeleteDid someone in the group killed her because they felt less people would increase their chances of surviving o what...
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