The Golden Dragon was furious.
When he heard the crying of his little mermaid, he was so angry that he wished he could swallow the entire sea.
As he emerged from the sea and looked down from above at the little mermaid sitting on the boat with tear-filled, innocent eyes, reaching out her arms toward him, his mind was consumed with anger.
These people!!!
How could these humans treat his little mermaid like this!!
His offspring was a fish, after all!!
They actually forced his offspring onto the shore!!! - S i t e s t o r y . c o m
Yes, in the eyes of the Golden Dragon, this boat was the shore.
For a fish, any place without water was dangerous.
Even for a mermaid!!
He roared and swung his tail, smashing the boat to pieces.
The people on the boat were fortunate in Shi Qing's presence, as the Golden Dragon was afraid of harming his little mermaid. So, he did not directly strike in their direction with his tail.
Since the boat capsized, the people on it were thrown into the water. They could all swim, so there was no immediate danger to their lives. However, they were terrified.
Zeng Nan and the others were fine because they were tied up and struggling for air in the water. She took the opportunity to cut the ropes and worked hard underwater to rescue her subordinates.
But those who surfaced first after entering the water were not as fortunate.
As soon as they popped their heads above the water, they found themselves face to face with the descending head of the Golden Dragon.
The pirates: "..."
The Golden Dragon's body was long, to say the least, and just his head...
In other words, his eyes were bigger than a human's.
One can imagine the heart-pounding experience of facing such a giant beast face to face.
They were almost scared to death!!
However, while they were about to be scared to death, the Golden Dragon didn't pay them any attention at all.
He was determined to reach his little mermaid, and as for these humans, they could never escape from the sea.
Even though Shi Qing appeared fragile on the outside, he was still a sea monster. With the boat overturned, he easily found a piece of debris to sit on. When he saw the Golden Dragon cautiously extending his dragon claw towards him, the little mermaid calmly sat down.
Then, he looked at the pirates swimming on the surface, opened his lips, and began to sing a beautiful song.
The song of a sea monster always carried a seductive charm, as if it were luring anyone who heard it to come closer.
The pirates who were still struggling on the sea gradually lost their focus. Each one of them saw the two-legged sheep they had eaten.
These remains were nothing but white bones, and the humans who died at the hands of their own kind seemed to have turned into ghosts, floating in the sea and revealing a pale smile.
"Ah!!!!"
Screams echoed on the sea, and the pirates convulsed, their faces filled with terror, as they sank into the depths of the sea.
Although they were still conscious, they couldn't move a muscle.
They could only convulse while watching themselves drown.
The Golden Dragon watched these people lose their signs of life with some pity and then turned to look at the little mermaid sitting in his claw, singing softly.
In reality, the Golden Dragon knew that the sea monsters' singing ability, as recorded in his inherited memories, was indeed terrible. Even though he couldn't understand it, the fact that these humans died such a painful, terrible death proved it.
Although he knew that the sea monsters who were brutally beaten by other creatures for their terrible singing in the inherited memories were not his own offspring, the Golden Dragon still felt sorry for them.
Every time he thought about how his offspring would be brutally beaten by other creatures for singing terribly before they got to know him, he wished he could swallow the entire sea of fish.
And when he thought about how the little mermaid might be afraid of being beaten for singing terribly, despite loving to sing, he felt even more sorry for her.
His poor offspring. How difficult must it be for a sea monster to suppress their natural urge to sing?
How did he know?
Didn't he see that the little mermaid only dared to sing when she was on his dragon claw?
The Golden Dragon was afraid that his offspring would feel inferior because her singing was terrible and that it would lead to the deaths of humans. He quickly swiped his tail to send the dead humans to the bottom of the sea.
He pretended that these people were killed by him.
It wasn't because his offspring sang so terribly that she killed them.
Regardless, destroying the evidence would make it seem like nothing had happened.
With no evidence that the little mermaid sang badly, the Golden Dragon immediately began to praise her without any guilt.
"It's beautiful, truly beautiful!"
"My offspring is amazing!"
Shi Qing proudly raised his lips and stretched out his delicate arms, hugging the dragon claw and rubbing against it, acting cute:
"You're really good."
The Golden Dragon: "!!!"
His offspring praised him, saying he's really good!
His good!!
The Golden Dragon's anger disappeared in an instant, replaced by pure joy.
He couldn't help but swing his long dragon tail back and forth in excitement, still in the water.
But to the people underwater...
One moment, this dragon tail had just killed a few people.
Judging by the force, it was as if it had turned those pirates into pulp.
The next moment, it was violently churning the water, creating a whirlpool that seemed to be trying to drown them alive!
Just as Zeng Nan and her subordinates were struggling to rescue themselves, she urgently gestured to them in the murky water, indicating that they should follow her and leave this place together.
At least they had to wait until they were far away from this gigantic Golden Dragon before resurfacing.
She didn't want to turn into pulp along with her subordinates.
However, in reality, for the Golden Dragon, the pride of the heavens, as long as he wanted to, even if these humans ran ashore, they couldn't escape his pursuit.
He didn't capture them because Shi Qing didn't want him to.
The little mermaid hummed and chirped, explaining the whole story: "I came to play with my friend, and those bad people caught us. They even said they were going to eat me."
"So, I killed them."
With that, the little mermaid raised her beautiful large tail and gently rubbed the fleshy pad on the dragon claw, her eyes moist, and her soft lips, which had just sung the Song of Death, lightly kissed one of the dragon's fingers.
Her voice was still so sweet: "Thank goodness you were here; otherwise, they would have definitely eaten me."
—Boom!
Even though the little mermaid's gentle kiss was almost imperceptible to the Golden Dragon, his mind was in chaos.
His little mermaid!
She kissed him!!
Him!!
Him!!
The Golden Dragon's inherited memory only recorded that dragons kissed each other when they wanted to mate.
Did the little mermaid want to mate with him?!
How difficult must it have been for the little mermaid to suppress her natural desire to sing when she was afraid of singing so terribly that she killed humans?
You might ask, how did he know?
Didn't you see that the little mermaid only dared to sing when she was on his dragon claw?!
While the Golden Dragon was lost in thought, Shi Qing lay comfortably in his dragon claw, basking in the joy of the sun shining directly on him.
After all, they say a higher vantage point provides a better view, and from this angle, he could see Zeng Nan and the others struggling to swim.
Zeng Nan and the others were indeed swimming.
Moreover, based on their estimation, it would take at least three hours of strenuous swimming to get back, and there was no guarantee they wouldn't lose their way.
It was fortunate that Zeng Nan had acted swiftly earlier and grabbed a piece of plank. If they got tired, they could take turns resting on it. If they got hungry, they could dive underwater to catch fish. If they got thirsty...
Well, they would have to endure their thirst for now; after all, seawater was undrinkable, and it only made them thirstier the more they drank.
It was also fortunate that the recent dragon roar had seemingly scared away the larger fish in the vicinity, leaving only slower ones.
Otherwise, they would have to deal with underwater dangers as well.
As they swam and splashed around, one of their subordinates turned his head cautiously and happened to see the terrifying sight of the Golden Dragon still standing with his upper body, a massive body that completely blocked out the sun.
He gulped and swallowed some saliva, "Boss, do you think that dragon will catch up with us? We didn't bully that mermaid, after all."
"Yeah, that mermaid seems to like you, Boss. Maybe she'll speak up for us."
"But I still can't figure out why such a big child of a dragon would be a mermaid. Besides having scales all over their bodies, do they have any other common characteristics?"
The difference in size alone was hard to ignore. This was no longer a matter of reproductive isolation; it was a matter of scientific plausibility!
Zeng Nan, who was swimming along, thought to herself, "..."
How would she know?!
If she had known earlier that the mermaid had such a big backer, why would she have been on guard? She would have gone all out to please the other party.
With such a big dragon protecting them, they could practically walk sideways in the sea.
But...
Thinking back to how she had been on guard against the mermaid before because she thought the mermaid was pretending to be weak to deceive her, even though she didn't show it on the surface but had always been cautious in her heart and rarely accepted the mermaid's goodwill, Zeng Nan couldn't help but want to slap herself twice.
What were you thinking, imagining things like that?!
How could she forget that in this world, not only humans could flaunt their connections, non-humans could do the same!
She had let go of such a big golden opportunity!
But she felt so sorry for herself!!
She didn't know if there was a chance to make amends.
Zeng Nan secretly swore in her heart that next time, the next time that mermaid came, she would definitely be on high alert and treat the other party like an ancestor.
She remembered that the mermaid seemed to like inviting her to go underwater and play.
Next time, she would definitely go underwater.
No more groundless assumptions!
[Ding! Zeng Nan's Rejection Level: 49/100]
The system was shocked.
What was going on with this rejection level? Wasn't it over 90 last time??
It tentatively emerged, "Host... Ah..."
Faced with the mosaic in front of it, the system silently retreated again.
But its heart was far from calm.
Tiny data, big doubts.
The Golden Dragon was so huge, yet the host...?
The system was bewildered.
How did this happen??
Could it really swim without drowning??
Unbeknownst to the system, the mosaic it had seen earlier wasn't as large as an entire building.
Though it was still quite large.
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