Quick Transmigration: Why did you provoke him? He's love-struck!

Chapter 357 The Bride of the Sea God (16)

The desensitization training and habit formation over the past few months have paid off at this time. As Yan Zhen skillfully patted his head, Nolan gradually relaxed, and his vertical pupils slowly returned to normal.

He turned to the side, revealing the mermaid in the tank behind him to Yan Zhen.

"It is injured."

Yan Zhen looked down. The female mermaid was red, and her tail fin seemed to have been cut in half by some sharp weapon. The skin around her neck was charred black by the electric collar, and there were many whip marks on her body.

It was on its last breath, but its eyes were filled with a strong desire to live.

Yan Zhen frowned: "It's badly injured and needs to be treated by a professional doctor."

The New Territories Research Institute has the facilities to treat mermaids, but most of the mermaids exhibited in the aquarium were captured by ocean-going vessels, sent to the research institute for screening, and finally transferred to the aquarium.

Mermaids might not want to return to that slaughterhouse, which is like a nightmare to them.

Sure enough, Nolan immediately shook his head: "No, don't go to the research institute, send it home."

Yan Zhen hesitated and asked, "Send her back to the sea?"

"Correct."

"But won't this worsen its injuries?"

Mermaids live in the deep ocean, where they are not without natural enemies. This mermaid is so weak that if we send it back into the sea now, it will probably be torn apart by other marine creatures before it even gets far.

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid." Nolan grabbed Yan Zhen's arm and shook it as if he were asking for snacks. "Send her back to the sea."

Yan Zhen thought for a moment and nodded: "Okay."

She told Nolan to stay there and not move, while she went out to talk to the curator.

Upon learning that Yan Zhen wanted to buy the dying female mermaid, the curator's first reaction was to refuse.

Aquariums, being open to the public, are most vulnerable to scandals involving animal abuse. If people were to see the mermaid's pitiful state, it could very well lead to a public relations crisis for the aquarium.

No matter how much Yan Zhen pleaded, the other party refused to budge, looking determined to kill the mermaid in the aquarium.

Left with no other option, Yan Zhen had to call Si Lan and ask her for help.

Si Lan has now taken over half of the Si family's business, including shares in the New Territories Research Institute and this aquarium, all of which are under her name.

She spoke up as a shareholder, and although the curator was unwilling, he had no choice but to compromise.

Yan Zhen returned to the backstage of the Mermaid Pavilion and told Nolan about it.

Nolan's eyes lit up when he learned that she had successfully negotiated and obtained the mermaid.

Yan Zhen had his bodyguard find a small truck with a back compartment. The aquarium staff replaced the female mermaid's tank and loaded it onto the truck.

Despite her motion sickness, Nolan boarded the truck and, together with Yan Zhen, headed to the dock under the escort of bodyguards.

Upon arriving at the dock, the bodyguards, under Yan Zhen's command, transferred the water tank containing the mermaid to Si Lan's yacht, which then sailed out to sea.

The yacht sailed for seven hours, from day to night, before stopping in a certain area of ​​the sea.

The bodyguard in charge of driving the yacht said, "Miss, we can't go any further. If we go any further, we'll be sailing out of the yacht's designated navigation area, which is risky."

Yan Zhen understood and told Nolan that they could only send the red mermaid this far.

It will have to rely on itself to get home from here on out.

Nolan nodded, walked to the water tank, placed his palm on the tank, and communicated with the red mermaid in the way of the mermaids. Then he opened the tank and took the mermaid out.

Nolan carried the mermaid out of the yacht's cabin and walked towards the stern.

Yan Zhen immediately followed.

When they reached the stern of the yacht, Nolan didn't rush to release the mermaid back into the sea. Instead, he knelt on the deck and leaned over to put one hand into the water.

Yan Zhen's heart skipped a beat as he watched it make that gesture.

At this moment, if Nolan were to leap into the sea, he could disappear before her eyes like a drop of water sinking into the ocean.

No one here can stop it from leaving.

After a full three minutes, Nolan withdrew his hand and stood up.

Yan Zhen was wondering what he was doing when suddenly the sound of splashing water came from the calm sea. A bodyguard next to her became alert and quickly stood guard beside Yan Zhen: "Miss, be careful."

Yan Zhen didn't move, but stared intently in the direction from which the sound of splashing water came.

As the sound grew closer, a shallow wave rose on the sea, and under the moonlight, something poked its head out of the water about forty or fifty meters from the yacht.

She is a mermaid.

Then came the second, third, and fourth points.

More and more mermaids surfaced, numbering two or three hundred in total, staring intently at the yacht with their vertical pupils.

This bizarre scene not only made Yan Zhen gasp in shock, but even the bodyguards' expressions changed drastically.

With so many mermaids, if they gang up on the yacht, they'll all die here tonight.

Thinking of this, the bodyguard immediately tried to pull out the military dagger he was carrying.

But Yan Zhen stopped him as soon as he made a move: "It's nothing."

Nolan listened to the commotion but did not turn around. Instead, he picked up the red mermaid from the deck and gently placed it into the sea.

The mermaid, unable to adapt to the change in water temperature immediately, shivered, then swung her injured tail fin and struggled to swim towards her group not far away, quickly disappearing into the swarm.

The merfolk surrounded the red mermaid, like countless hands lifting up an injured child.

The red mermaid turned back and gave Nolan a deep look before sinking into the sea with her kin, disappearing into the vast night.

As the other mermaids returned to the seabed, Yan Zhen breathed a barely perceptible sigh of relief.

Fortunately, these merfolk did not choose to attack them.

Fortunately, Nolan did not leave with them.

Seeing Nolan standing on the deck staring blankly at the sea, Yan Zhen gestured for the bodyguards to return to the cabin first.

She walked over to Nolan and tugged at his arm.

Nolan turned his head to look at her.

"Do you want to go home?" Yan Zhen asked.

Nolan's lips moved, but he didn't speak.

Yan Zhen reached out to undo his belt.

Nolan was taken aback and instinctively grabbed her waistband to stop her from taking it off.

“Go home if you want. They haven’t gone far. If you chase after them now, you should be able to catch up,” Yan Zhen said. “Take off your clothes and go back into the sea. Be smarter next time, and don’t let humans catch you again.”

Nolan remained motionless, looking down at Yan Zhen.

The human in front of me was only 1.6 meters tall, with thin arms and legs, underdeveloped muscles, and little strength.

This is what a four-month-old baby mermaid looks like when placed among the mermaids.

With just a little effort, he could easily crush her skull and rip out her heart.

She is very patient and always speaks softly when talking to herself.

She was very gentle, and when she fed herself fish, she always picked out all the bones.

Even when he deliberately caused trouble and made a mess of the house, she couldn't bring herself to hit him hard; she would just pat his head symbolically.

She was not like the vicious, greedy, and cruel humans who had slaughtered countless merfolk as described by the clan chief.

She might seem to be an exception.

"I'm not leaving," Nolan said softly.