Chapter 124

Chapter 124

She had barely swum a few meters when Yun Youyou felt something grab her ankle.

Her body sank sharply beneath the water.

Bubbles gurgled up around her.

Yun Youyou forced her eyes open underwater.

Thankfully, the water quality here was decent-clean and clear enough for her to see exactly what was clutching her ankle.

The monster had a head of long hair and a pair of claws soaked deathly pale, tipped with sharp nails.

Black strands drifted through the water, hiding its true face.

Yun Youyou raised the fishing spear in her hand and stabbed viciously at the monster’s sharp claws.

In the blur of movement, Yun Youyou thought she saw several human legs flash past in the water.

The two of them tangled and fought beneath the surface.

Yun Youyou grabbed that irritating mane of long hair with her Tentacle.

The monster clutched its head in pain.

It felt as if its scalp was about to be ripped clean off.

Taking advantage of the moment when the monster let go, Yun Youyou hurled the fishing spear in her hand straight at it, fast, accurate, and ruthless, like throwing a javelin.

After breaking free, Yun Youyou swam toward the surface as fast as she could.

Damn it. She had almost died underwater.

Yun Youyou felt like her lungs were about to explode.

Wait!

Did ghosts even have lungs?

Lungs or no lungs, Yun Youyou instinctively broke the surface and gulped in huge breaths of air.

“Yun Youyou!”

“Mom!”

The three people on the shore had all spotted Yun Youyou and hurriedly shouted for her to come over.

Yun Youyou waved at them, then dipped her head back into the water and began swimming toward shore.

After swimming a few meters, she heard the sound of something breaking through the water behind her.

Yun Youyou pulled out every swimming trick she had ever learned in her life.

At the same time, the three people on the beach hurried toward the water.

Yun Youyou felt like her arms were about to snap from paddling before she finally managed to reach the shore.

Half her body had already broken free of the sea.

Just a little more, and she would be completely out.

Unfortunately, the monster’s hand grabbed her foot again.

The damn thing was freakishly strong, dragging Yun Youyou bit by bit back down into the sea.

“Hurry up and pull me!”

Yun Youyou’s fingers clawed weakly at the sand, leaving several long marks behind.

Wang Yuanyou and Ji Lin each grabbed one of Yun Youyou’s hands and pulled together, finally hauling her up.

When the thing in the water saw that Yun Youyou had help, it turned and tried to flee.

Ji Lin was quick-eyed and quick-handed. He threw out a net and scooped it up.

The thing in the water struggled a few times but couldn’t break free.

Only then did its true appearance reveal itself under the sunlight.

Its upper body was covered in scales, refracting a dazzling rainbow sheen in the sun. Two dead-fish eyes were embedded in its fishy face.

Its upper half looked like a fish, but its lower half had legs almost like a human’s-except it had four of them.

Using Ji Lin’s arm for support, Yun Youyou scrambled up from the beach in a sorry state.

She circled the fish-faced, human-bodied creature once.

“Well, damn. Even if you’ve been living in the sea and don’t get to see many people, you still can’t just grow however you feel like it!”

“What am I supposed to call you? A fish with four legs? Or a four-legged person with a fish face?”

The fish-faced, human-bodied thing struggled in the net. After realizing it couldn’t escape, it settled down.

It pretended not to understand human speech, its two dead-fish eyes hiding a trace of confusion.

With that foolish look on its face, anyone who didn’t know better might have thought it was truly innocent.

Yun Youyou said, “Not talking, huh? If you won’t talk, we’ll take him back and make fish head soup.”
Ji Lin actually pulled the net tight and made as if to carry him off.

“No, no, no!”

The fishman inside panicked at once.

Yun Youyou said nothing. She stood coldly off to the side, waiting for the fishman to speak.

He had better come up with a perfect explanation, or she was going to kill him!

The fishman didn’t even dare meet Yun Youyou’s eyes. He hurriedly shifted his dead-fish gaze away.

If he’d known she was this tough, he never would have tried anything.

A fishman’s brain wasn’t even the size of a walnut kernel.

He thought for ages before finally speaking.

“Actually, I’m the Fish God of the sea. I saw you drop a fishing spear just now, so I wanted to test you. Beautiful lady, may I ask: was it this limited-edition golden fishing spear you lost, or this custom-made silver fishing spear?”

“…”

Yun Youyou rolled her eyes. “Neither. What I lost was you, you dumb fork.”

Fishman: …

That was really hard to respond to.

He had no choice but to brace himself and pull Yun Youyou’s iron fishing spear out from behind him, then let out a few awkward laughs.

“Haha… Looks like you’re a very honest child. In that case, I’ll return your fishing spear to you. No need to thank me! Just let me go right away!”

The fishman’s mouth opened and closed, and even the scales on his body contracted rhythmically along with it.

Every cell in his body was screaming that he wanted to flee this place.

Unfortunately, Yun Youyou had no intention of letting him off.

He had dragged a ghost into the water. It was obvious he had been trying to rob and kill her. Only someone with a hole in their brain would let this merman go.

Carrying the fishing spear over her shoulder, Yun Youyou planted one domineering foot directly on his enormous fish head.

“Knock him out. Tonight, we’re making fish-head soup!”

Fishman: !!!

Even Lu Keke was stunned by Yun Youyou’s tyrannical aura.

He froze for a moment, then asked quietly, “Can this fish be eaten?”

Yun Youyou patted Lu Keke’s little head.

“Why couldn’t it? Children who eat fish get smarter, and women who eat fish get prettier. This fish is so big; one look and you can tell it’s nourishing. Just don’t suck out his fish brain later. He doesn’t look very bright.”

Once the fishman came back to his senses, his giant head thrashed wildly under Yun Youyou’s foot.

“No! I’m a mermaid! You can’t treat me like this! I’m the son of the sea!”

Wang Yuanyou stuffed a wad of seaweed straight into his mouth.

He gave a light scoff. “If you’re the son of the sea, then I’m the sea’s daddy. The Little Mermaid is the sea’s daughter. At most, you’re some non-mainstream punk from the ocean floor. In human terms, you’ve got your ass growing out of your head, so stop trying to ride the Little Mermaid’s coattails.”

The fishman shed tears of sorrow.

So I was only a clown after all.

Wang Yuanyou took the net bag from Ji Lin and dragged the fishman step by step back to the villa.

“Where do we put this thing?”

For a moment, Wang Yuanyou didn’t know what to call this fishman either.

He pulled the wad of seaweed out of the fishman’s mouth.

“Hey, what’s your name?”

The fishman said, “My name is Xiaomei.”

Wang Yuanyou nodded, then stuffed the seaweed back into the fishman’s mouth.

He turned to ask Yun Youyou, “Where do we put this clown?”

Fishman: My name is Xiaomei! Not clown, waaah…

Yun Youyou was stumped too.

“Do we have to put him in a fish tank? Even if he’s a fishman, he’s still a type of fish, right?”

Ji Lin said, “I saw a swimming pool out back. Let’s put him there.”