CH 15

TL: Hua

“You have completed the relevant course on mermaid habits. Congratulations on your further understanding of yourself. Please pay attention to protecting yourself in the future. If necessary, you can seek assistance from the special office of the primary beastmen protection center. Now, please proceed to the post-course examination.”

Before Ji Mingjiang was nearly bored enough to sleep with his eyes open, these 20 classes were finally over, but the closing words before the course assessment were not quite the same as the previous one.

The primary beastmen protection center? Ji Mingjiang thoughtfully wrote down this new institution.

The course assessment is still as simple as ever. Although Ji Mingjiang was itching to choose the option that didn’t seem to be the correct answer, he finally suppressed the hand that was about to move.

Calm down; everything is not bad at the moment.

The tail fin slapped the water’s surface fiercely. The water droplets, which are significantly colder at night, splashed on Ji Mingjiang’s hands, as if to accuse him of being irresponsible to himself and his tail.

It’s not difficult to get a perfect score. Although Ji Mingjiang didn’t listen carefully during class, as long as he has heard something, he will have a rough impression, and it’s no problem to answer a few simple questions based on this impression.

As expected, Carrie looked at the trumpets and flowers that reappeared on the screen and skillfully sent the transcript to Oddo.

She could not immediately transfer Lance from Area D to Area A after the report card was sent out. She had to wait for Oddo to notify Area A, and after the keepers in Area A had calmed down the little mermaids again and given them sufficient precautions, Oddo would open the channel connecting the two pools.

Although Oddo had asked the keepers to tell the little mermaids in advance this afternoon, it was already 8 o’clock in the evening after all, and it was necessary to remind them again.

Carrie originally wanted to tidy up the things Lance used during this time, but as soon as she stood up, she froze in place as if she suddenly realized something.

It’s been almost a week since he came here, and Lance has never shown any liking for toys…

During the two days before learning, this little mermaid was just floating aimlessly on the water’s surface, besides eating and sleeping every day. Sometimes he would suddenly sink into the water and jump out of it or circle around the pool, as if practicing something. The toys that Carrie occasionally tossed at him are also being fiddled with twice and then put aside.

This made Carrie very worried for a while. If Lance hadn’t given her some positive responses every time she communicated with him, she would have called the psychiatrist from the medical department over.

In the four days after the start of his lesson, Lance’s activities other than eating, sleeping, and exercising were studies, and they accounted for the majority. Naturally, Carrie would not bother the little mermaid, who was obsessed with studying, and ask him to play with toys.

So the math comes down to this….

Carrie stood in a daze in the empty and tidy room. The little mermaid didn’t seem to have any luggage for her to pack…

Ah, once again she felt how easy it was to get this salary, but it made her look so useless.

Fortunately, the news from Oddo came back quickly, and Carrie was not left alone for too long.

Probably because it was close to the mermaid’s usual bedtime, the mermaids in a relaxed state quickly remembered that they were about to have a new partner and showed a rare expression of curiosity and joy.

“Okay, since there’s nothing to clean up, let’s go straight there.” After touching Lance’s smooth long hair, Carrie walked to the edge of the pool and pressed down a movable tile, after which a row of buttons appeared on the pool wall.

Immediately below the pool, four tiles became transparent; seemingly high-tech products were used to change places for him.

Although he was a little surprised that they didn’t use the previous fish tank to send him there, without Carrie’s words, Ji Mingjiang swam over consciously.

It’s just that the development of the matter is not the same as he imagined.

“Hey!!!” There was a sudden sense of weightlessness, and Ji Mingjiang made a rare sound of panic.

It turned out that Carrie saw him cooperate so much and thought he had already guessed the existence of this transmission channel, so she smiled knowingly and pressed the open button directly.

He originally thought this would be some kind of high-tech and magical teleportation array, but it was just a water pipe! ! ! Is that how you treat mermaids? !

Ji Mingjiang followed the water in the pool and slid forward along the pipe, complaining madly in his heart.

He has never felt that ten seconds is such a long period of time.

Finally, a light gradually emerged from the end of the pipe. It was the arrival of Ji Mingjiang’s new residence.

He doesn’t know what area A would be like…

Accompanied by the sound of splashing water, Ji Mingjiang lifted his head out of the water and brushed away the strands of hair from his face.

The silver-white hair glowed faintly under the light, and Ji Mingjiang heard exclamations one after another.

He looked up and saw that the pool in Area A was at least five times larger than the one he had been in before. There was only a keeper in a white coat watching him intently by the pool, and the sound of trotting outside the hallway, presumably from Carrie on her way in.

Then who made the exclamations he heard just now?

As soon as Ji Mingjiang raised this question, he felt that someone had poked his waist.

“Well, are you our new companion?” Ji Mingjiang turned his head and saw a mermaid with black hair, black eyes, fair skin, and a figure equivalent to half of him. That mermaid looked at him timidly and asked in a low voice.

…Ji Mingjiang also took a casual look at the other mermaids around him and found that the first mermaid who spoke to him seemed to be the biggest one besides him.

The lesson on mermaid habits is not exaggerated at all!

Ji Mingjiang was inwardly shocked, but his face was still calm. He took out the attitude he had in his previous life when he went to volunteer at the orphanage and nodded gently.

After all, in his opinion, these little guys may not even be adults, maybe even less than ten years old.

Afer they discovered that this new mermaid, who was many times bigger than them, seemed to have a good temper, some little mermaids who were still a little afraid of the new companion also came to him with questions.

“Wow, how old are you? You look much taller than us.”

“Your hair is so smooth; it’s a color we’ve never seen before, and your skin is also good. What does your keeper feed you every day?”

“Where did you live before? We haven’t had any new companions join us for a long time.”

“…”

The questions were many and varied, some of which Ji Mingjiang had not expected at all, so he could only pick and choose his answers.

Like the first one.

“I’m 16 this year; how about you?” In order to prevent other mermaids from chasing him and asking non-stop, Ji Mingjiang took the initiative to ask back.

“So young!” The first thing that came out of the mermaid’s mouth was not a number that symbolized age, but a sentence from the bottom of their hearts.

“You are the youngest in our place!” The mermaid who took the lead in talking to him also changed his cautious look to a surprised one.

ah? ? ?

Ji Mingjiang’s originally calm face instantly cracked. He looked back with the same expression of disbelief.

Just as he was about to ask something, the voices of Carrie and another keeper sounded at the same time, “Okay, okay, let’s exchange feelings tomorrow. It’s already nine o’clock. You should go to bed.”

After finishing speaking, the few little mermaids who had been circling around the Ji Mingjiang before swam to the side of the pool with unhappy faces, waiting for the keepers to help them take off the translators.

Seeing this, Ji Mingjiang swept his dark blue fish tail up and down and came to Carrie’s side to expose his ear fins.

“Lance is a good boy. You have to get along well with your new friends.”

Carrie also saw the scene of him communicating enthusiastically with a few mermaids here just now, so she wasn’t too worried about this. She gently took off the earbuds hanging on the ear fins after giving advice.

After putting it in a special box, she went to help Qin Shasha pick up the translator. Knowing that Lance was going to change his living area today, Carrie took the initiative to apply for overtime in order to be able to help when he needed it. Qin Shasha also ran to change the night shift with someone. What’s even more coincidental is that Lance was actually assigned to the foster pool she was in!

“Okay, let’s go.” Turning her head to confirm the situation of the mermaids, Qin Shasha turned off the lights, and the two walked to the parking lot while chatting.

“It’s the first time I’ve seen those little guys so lively. A few of them usually don’t say more than three words all day long.”

“And so is Lance! He rarely has such a vivid expression!”

“It seems that they should be able to get along well during this period of time. When I first received the news from Mr. Oddo, I was still worried for a long time… That said, I kind of know why you were looking for me every day before. Lance can’t be compared with other mermaids. Their temperaments are way too different.”

“Yes, yes, tomorrow you will be able to feel it even more deeply!”

“…”

After Carrie and Qin Shasha left, the lights in the hall were also turned off one after another according to the set procedures, leaving only the faint glow of the floor lights in the corridor.

Ji Mingjiang heard a rustling sound coming from his ears. It seems those little mermaids found their usual toys at the bottom of the pool and then fell asleep holding them.

He hasn’t slept yet. It’s not that he couldn’t sleep in the new environment, like Carrie was worried about. Instead, he relied on his night-vision ability to observe the new room.

There are two full rows of toy shelves at the end of the room.

The shelf on the left is full. The toys placed in the middle and lower layers have different degrees of wear and tear, and they seem to be frequently used. Those in the middle and upper layers are some brand new toys, some of which should have just been unpacked for a few days, and some are still in the packaging boxes in good condition.

The shelf on the right was empty, and occasionally there would be one or two scattered, old-looking toys placed on it. In addition to this, there is only an empty box with the opening facing outward and a piece of paper placed in the box. The piece of paper is laid flat, so Ji Mingjiang could not see what was written on it.

…..can’t be a person’s name, can it? This is also too strange.

He muttered in his heart, and his gaze did not stop on the two rows of shelves.

The rest is not much to see. Tt’s still the screens that occupy most of the wall, but this time there are two screens, installed on the left and right walls.

Then there are some things that Ji Mingjiang isn’t familiar with, but they should be medical equipment and a medical examination cabin that he was taken to on the first day when he came here. This takes up a large part of the area; after all, it needs to accommodate a fish tank.

The rest seems to be no different from the place he stayed before…

After looking around the entire room, Ji Mingjiang yawned slowly, found a corner without mermaids, and fell asleep.

What made him happiest after changing the room was probably that the bigger pool made him feel less stuffy. In his dream, Ji Mingjiang thought of the bottomless sea and himself swimming around in it.

Alas, when will he be able to graduate from here and go out to work? When he earns enough money, he must buy a house with a sea view…

Hua: There’s a change in schedule again due to my workload. So I’ll post only on Friday, but I’ll try to do two chapters if I can. (○｀ 3′○)