CH 34

TL: Hua

In the early morning of the next day, Ji Mingjiang slowly opened his eyes and wagged his tail at Clarice, who was dressing next to him.

A drop of water dripped down the tail fin that swung overhead onto his face, and a flash of coolness made Ji Mingjiang, who was now bathed in the early morning sun, squint comfortably and then become more sleepy.

He and Clarice discussed for more than an hour last night the topic of “how to open the darkroom without alerting other nobles”, and successively proposed and rejected a dozen ideas.

In the end, under the intelligent reminder of the light brain, the two unanimously decided to let go of this matter first.

Anyway, for now, the situation is not too bad.

The basic safety of the mermaid will not be a problem under Clarice’s special care, and as for the classes that make him feel abnormal…..

It could not be removed immediately to prevent alerting the enemies and due to the fact that the mermaids have been spoiled too much for generations. Ji Mingjiang simply said, “Don’t worry, no mermaid has seriously read those shit-like classes except me.”

That’s what Ji Mingjiang told Clarice at the time.

After remembering the content of the conversation last night, Ji Mingjiang yawned a little. He tilted his head to look at the looming shadow under Clarice’s unfastened shirt, as well as the muscles in his arms and back that stretched when he put on his coat. His elegant and dazzling tail lifted and fell with a string of water droplets.

“Clarice,” Ji Mingjiang said in a somewhat drowsy voice, “When you are free, shall we spar?”

Leiden, who had been somewhat tense since he felt the measuring eyes behind him, relaxed only after hearing these words. He turned around and looked helplessly at Ji Mingjiang, who was obviously still sleepy, and his eyes fell straight on his still-flapping tail.

Seeing that Ji Mingjiang’s tail was no longer wobbling, he approached the pool. Through the water, he could see that the mermaid’s arms and naked body were covered with a thin layer of muscle. Although it was in a relaxed state at this time, he could also imagine the power contained in it.

One can also imagine the strength of that attractive tail just by looking at the water it splashes every time.

With the performance of Ji Mingjiang in the game yesterday, Leiden was indeed tempted by his proposal for a moment.

but……

He knelt down and pinched the cold and silky smooth tail fin with his fingers, raised his eyebrows, and asked, “Shall I fight you in the water?”

Ji Mingjiang’s mind was still immersed in drowsiness. He half-heartedly snatched his tail back from Clarice’s hand and thought for a moment before saying, “You can also play a few games with me in the holographic mode. There should be a designated challenge mode, right?”

This is indeed true. In Leiden’s impression, the few games that are directly linked to the military basically have designated modes, such as the mecha game that Ji Mingjiang played yesterday.

After nodding to accept the invitation, he picked up the diary that was set aside and walked out.

As soon as he opened the door, he saw Rowlett waiting aside. After handing over the diary, Leiden motioned for him to report today’s schedule.

After the report, seeing Rowlett looking at the diary in his hand with melancholy and nostalgia, Leiden suddenly realized that if anyone else could know something about those years, it should be Rowlett.

After thinking for a while, he asked, “Rowlett, have my parents told you about the history of mermaids?”

Not expecting him to ask this out of the blue, Rowlett narrowed his eyes and thought for a while before shaking his head.

“This is something that only the royal family can know. Berek and the others never mentioned it to me. But…” As if remembering something, Rowlett became a little hesitant.

“This old man is getting old. I don’t know if I remember correctly, but when your parents decided to bring Kiro back and raise that little guy in the same way as you, I seem to remember Shanas saying that it was the royal family’s debt to the mermaid clan.”

Seeing Leiden suddenly frown, Rowlett smiled and patted his forearm while gently saying, “Although I don’t know why Shanas said such words, you still have a long time to find out the truth.”

After the little mermaid with silver hair and a blue tail arrived, Leiden’s mental state visibly stabilized.

The diagnosis given by the doctor before was also sent to him, and Rowlett now has strong confidence that Leiden, who mutated in the direction of a black dragon, will live a long life.

Hearing this, Leiden chuckled lightly and relaxed his frown, saying, “You’re right.”

…

Because Clarice didn’t eat in the bedroom this morning, when Ji Mingjiang woke up again, there was only a plate of small whitebait for breakfast.

Perhaps the other party was worried that he would get hungry, so another tube of nutrient solution was placed next to him.

After looking at the tube of lavender liquid, Ji Mingjiang remembered that from the moment he opened his eyes and found himself sent to the interstellar world until now, he hadn’t tried this kind of thing that could replace food in the novel.

After eating the fish that seemed a little too small, Ji Mingjiang took the tube of nutrient solution.

After opening the cork, a faint grape smell came out.

His complexion became weird for a moment. How can this nutrient solution be made like grape juice? The reason Clarice usually has no problem drinking this stuff is because he takes it as juice?

However, since it looks like it’ll taste good, Ji Mingjiang also didn’t get the initial rejection. He took a sip and found that the taste was not as he expected, and then he drank the whole tube of nutrient solution.

The next second, a burning sensation came from the tail that was more intense than before. Ji Mingjiang let out a muffled groan, and the glass tube rolled down to the ground with a crisp sound.

The fish tail hidden underwater rarely felt such intense pain. It curled up and stretched painfully underwater, trying to take away the sudden heat with the flow of the pool water.

Ji Mingjiang fixed his eyes on his own tail.

At first, he almost suspected Clarice’s nutrient solution had been switched by someone, but he quickly realized that the energy provided by the nutrient solution should be more abundant and more refined than a normal meal, which led to his unexpected “growth”.

After realizing this, Ji Mingjiang relaxed a lot in his heart, but the physical pain did not transfer along with the mental relaxation. Beads of sweat immediately formed on his forehead.

“……F*ck.”

He doesn’t know why the process took so long this time. Ji Mingjiang curses in his heart.

Finally, after holding up a handful of water for an unknown amount of time to cool himself down, Ji Mingjiang looked at his tail again and saw that it was swaying and stretching under the waves before turning into a pair of straight and powerful legs.

Slowly sinking himself underwater, his toes curled up uncomfortably when he touched the bottom of the pool, and then Ji Mingjiang started to walk underwater with some novelty.

Although he has been in the form of a human in the holographic world for a while and played a lot of games, the holographic technology is somewhat different from the real world, and Ji Mingjiang is still not used to walking.

After he pulled the curtains behind him, the room suddenly darkened. After confirming again that there was no camera installed in the bedroom, he kicked his legs and floated to the surface of the water, and then stood up with his hands on the edge of the pool.

“Ah Choo.” The late autumn morning was a bit chilly. Ji Mingjiang just drew the curtains and did not close the windows, so he couldn’t help but sneeze when the morning breeze blew on his body, which was still hanging with water droplets.

After squeezing the water out of his hair, Ji Mingjiang moved slowly to pick up the glass tube that fell down and the light brain that had been brought far away by the churning water just now.

There were no clothes for mermaids in Clarice’s room, and he didn’t plan to walk around the palace with his mermaid face while wearing Clarice’s clothes.

It’s okay to be regarded as a Federation spy, but he’s afraid of meeting someone who knows his mermaid appearance.

It’s not a big problem if it’s one of Clarice’s people, but if it’s the mole sent by those nobles, whom he deduced as bad people yesterday, then he will be in big trouble.

Therefore, after taking back the light brain, Ji Mingjiang only walked around the spot twice before returning to the water contentedly.

He had a hunch that when he had sufficient energy, he might be able to independently determine the changes in his fish tail and human legs.

His mental power was carefully transported to his legs, and then he began to explore the veins of his legs. When his mental power could circulate through his legs, Ji Mingjiang recalled the appearance of his own fish tail and tentatively began to change the direction of his swimming.

Sure enough, when he opened his eyes and looked down, a dark blue fishtail with a silvery white light on its surface frantically wagged before his eyes.

There was a smile at the corner of Ji Mingjiang’s eyes. He reached out and picked up the empty nutrient solution tube next to him and sighed: “You’re not a nutrient solution, but a growth accelerator.”

He could feel that the energy provided by this tube of nutrient solution was enough for him to change back and forth several times between his fishtail and his legs.

After discovering a stable conversion method, Ji Mingjiang was in high spirits, wishing he could go to Clarice to compare his skills right now.

And after this strong emotion was suppressed, it smoothly turned into the idea of going on a killing spree in the game.

Ji Mingjiang saved the items he wore last time as a set, and this time he directly chose the whole set to wear and then walked out.

However, when walking on the holographic street, he was keenly aware that many people were secretly staring at him, and after seeing him walk into the game street, this kind of gaze became more intense and fiery.

In the emotions he perceives, there is not much negativity, such as disgust and hatred, but mostly curiosity and…excitement?

“?”

After realizing something was wrong, Ji Mingjiang immediately looked at his legs hidden under his robe.

It didn’t become a tail.

And just after seeing his figure, someone quickly went offline, which Ji Mingjiang didn’t notice.

Immediately afterwards, a new post appeared in the largest game forum on Starnet. After only ten minutes, it was topped as a hot post, marked red, and floated on the front page of the forum for a long time.

[Report! The mysterious boss who madly abused players in the novice field yesterday and was offered a huge bounty by the young master of the Lavender family has appeared!!!]

The author has something to say:

This chapter is a bit short; let’s add more tomorrow _(:з”∠)_

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