Lance sleeps in the cocoon, he knows nothing about the outside world.
During the entire eclosion process, Lance slept soundly, curled up, hugging his tail, dreaming sweet dreams inside the cocoon.
And because Lance had accumulated enough nutrients before eclosion, the eclosion process this time was extremely smooth.
While Lance was still sleeping with his eyes closed, his nails gradually grew back, and the soft white scales on his body were replaced by harder, more shiny white scales.
And the rest of the body is slowly evolving. The dug out poison sacs regenerate, the damaged throat regenerates, and even the teeth are replaced, becoming sharper teeth.
This coming-of-age ceremony finally came to a perfect conclusion.
Due to Wen Yu's meticulous care, Lance's eclosion process was extremely fast. Of course, this may also be because Lance himself wanted to build the nest too quickly.
The entire process for Lance took just three days.
When he was inside the cocoon, Lance would sometimes fall asleep and wake up, and he would take advantage of this short period of waking time to look down at what had changed in him, or hug himself in the cocoon The tail of the fish turned over.
Ever since he became a mermaid, Lance found that his bones were much softer than when he was a human, so he can do such difficult movements without any effort at all.
After turning over with the fish tail in his arms, Lance would lower his head and touch his belly.
When hoarding nutrients before, he hoarded so much that his stomach became limp and there was a small circle of flesh.
During the feathering process, the fat on his stomach disappeared at a speed visible to the naked eye, and finally became flat, with traces of abdominal muscles protruding.
If the consumption was so intense, Lance suddenly understood why the mermaid would try to eat it in the early stage of nesting.
He really couldn't imagine, if he hadn't hoarded nutrients, would he continue to emerge at the cost of consuming his body during the process of nesting and eclosion.
Today is the third day of the eclosion process, and Lance is fully awake.
He opened his eyes and sensed that the water temperature had become slightly warmer, and he knew it was another day outside.
Although he woke up in the cocoon, Lance didn't intend to go out immediately.
Under normal circumstances, he would stay in the cocoon for another day.
Lance yawned inside the cocoon, preparing to sleep for another day, giving his body the last bit of time to check for omissions and make up for gaps. Tomorrow is the best time to break out of the cocoon.
After making a decision, Lance leaned himself against the cocoon, ready to close his eyes and continue to sleep, but at that moment, his ear fins suddenly moved.
Lance opened his eyes suddenly, and looked in a certain direction through a layer of white cocoons.
Article 4 of the Mermaid Breeding Code:
Mermaids during the nesting period are very territorial, please don't let their kind approach, otherwise, it may cause a fight.
Lance had a hunch that something annoying was coming in from outside. He didn't quite understand that Wen Yu's villa had always been tightly sealed off, so why would there be a strange thing outside today.
The reason why it is called a strange thing is because Lance knows very well that the thing outside is not a person.
Although he didn't quite understand why he recognized it so quickly, he felt an incomparable sense of disgust for the things outside.
At the same time, Lance was still a little anxious. He really wanted to go out now and get the strange intruder outside out.
This is his domain!
Wen Yu is his, the villa is his, how can that thing outside come in without his consent? !
Oh, by the way, what about Wen Yu
Where did Wen Yu go again? Why not stay here and guard the place that belongs to both of them? ?
Fortunately, although Lance was on the verge of rage, his reason overwhelmed his emotions.
Lance decided to stay in the cocoon first, he didn't want to cause trouble.
It’s fine if the unexpected guest leaves by himself, but if he doesn’t…
Lance couldn't help but bared his teeth in that direction.
As for the guy who entered the villa, his perception was obviously not as sharp as that of Lance. After entering the villa, he was aimless at first, and he did not perceive the existence of the other party like Lance.
It wandered around the villa for a while, then it came to the pool and stood there motionless.
At this time, Lance was hiding in the cocoon, he turned his head and "looked" at the guy standing by the pool without any mistakes.
And that guy finally noticed the existence of Lance.
They are separated by a layer of cocoons, looking at each other from a distance.
At this time, Lance didn't plan to do anything. He decided to endure it. If the other party invaded his domain further, then he really wouldn't be to blame.
However, the other party was like a fool, unable to hear Lance's heartbeat at all, it jumped into the water with a "plop" in front of Lance, and swam towards Lance.
Lance froze for a moment, then exploded in anger.
Originally, he planned to stay in the cocoon for a day, but the operation of the guy outside made Lance unable to bear it at all.
Forget about invading the domain, do you still want to stain his cocoon
Lance immediately became energetic. Before that guy came, he put his claws on the cocoon first, and then tore it violently——
"crash"
The water in the swimming pool poured in, Lance opened his eyes, and saw something like a "mermaid" floating not far from him in the haze.
what is this
similar
Lance closed his eyes, opened them vigorously again, and for the first time after the cocoons emerged, he could clearly see what was in front of him in the water—
It's something like him.
The reason for saying this is because Lance knew at the first glance that even though the appearance was similar in some respects, the thing in front of him was definitely a different species from him.
Lance decided to wait and see what happened.
Under the watchful eye of that guy, he very slowly tore open the opening on the cocoon, and then leaned out from the cocoon.
During the whole process, the guy on the opposite side didn't move. It stared at Lance, as if very afraid and very puzzled.
Lance didn't dare to make big moves. After sticking out his upper body, he slowly pulled his tail out of the cocoon.
Afterwards, he stretched his tail a few times in the water, the white scales reflected the light in the water, for a moment it was as beautiful as a brilliant diamond.
Seeing Lance's tail, the guy's eyes lit up all of a sudden. It swam towards Lance and let out a soft cry.
At this moment, Lance finally saw the other party's appearance clearly.
The opponent's fish tail is deformed, unlike Lance's yarn-like fins floating in the water, the opponent's fish tail basically has no fins, and looks more like a snake tail;
The upper body is even more messed up, except that the outline of a human can be barely seen, it is completely different from the description of the mermaid in the fairy tale:
The face of the other party was smooth, with black eyes, no nose, and a grin behind the ears. It looked more like a fish than a human.
Lance knew in an instant that the other party was the "murloc" that Wen Yu and the others had caught during this time.
Compared to a mermaid with a beautiful figure that can perfectly preserve the human part, the thing in front of it is more like a clay puppet randomly made by the creator, and it is a completely inferior product.
What is he
As soon as it came out of the cocoon, came across this? What luck
Lance didn't know what the murloc was and what methods it had, so he didn't dare to make other moves at all. Instead, he stood beside Cocoon, watching every move of the murloc vigilantly.
[ai—]
A murloc swung his blue-gray tail and called out to Lance.
Lance blinked, wondering if he had heard wrong.
Was the murloc courting him just now
The murloc was really courting Lance.
And the reason why it takes a fancy to Lance is also very simple, that is, Lance's beautiful fish tail attracts it.
It has never seen such a beautiful fish tail.
But after calling out, seeing that Lance didn't respond at all, the murloc thought it was because he didn't express his sincerity, or his appearance wasn't attractive enough, so he tilted his head, and began to change in front of Lance.
Lance looked at the murloc in front of him, his blue pupils dilated in shock—
The murloc's face began to change, the smooth part in the center gathered up a straight nose, and then its eyeballs began to change into whites and pupils, and its mouth began to shrink into a small cherry mouth.
The breasts also began to bulge, showing female characteristics.
That is to say, in just one minute, the murloc changed his appearance into that of a beautiful woman in line with human characteristics.
If Lance hadn't been watching all the time, Lance would have thought the murloc in front of him was a projection.
However, no matter how beautiful the upper body becomes, the murloc seems unable to change the lower body.
The misshapen tail was still there, unchanged.
Lance couldn't help but swim a little towards the murloc. He was very curious about how the murloc managed to change his appearance.
Seeing Lance swimming over, the murloc was very happy. Under Lance's gaze, it adjusted its appearance more and more diligently. Finally, while watching Lance's face, it adjusted its face into a lovely and delicate woman cheek.
With a smile, there are two small dimples.
The more Lance watched, the more startled he became. He didn't know if it was his illusion. He always felt that the transformed face of the murloc on the other side was somewhat similar to his face.
After changing the face, the murloc on the opposite side saw Lance staring at its face curiously. It thought that Lance was attracted to it, so it swam slowly and freely, tentatively swimming towards Lance.
The murloc was particularly enthusiastic about Lance. It danced its tail lightly, and the tail swung in a rhythm, as if dancing lightly. At the same time, it opened its mouth and hummed a strange tone from its mouth.
As for Lance, he just looked at the murloc in front of him calmly.
If this scene was viewed by outsiders, they would definitely know that the murloc in front of them was courting.
What's interesting is that in nature, males usually try their best to court females, but here, it's just the opposite.
Lance looked at the murloc in front of him indifferently. He turned a blind eye to the murloc's hospitality and became more vigilant instead.
The murloc saw that Lance did not relax his vigilance. He tilted his head, opened his mouth, and hummed much louder.
Lance had never heard this tune before, but when the murloc opened his mouth to hum, he couldn't help but widen his eyes in amazement—
A powerful and invisible force spread in the small swimming pool, which made Lance faintly hallucinate:
He saw the surrounding swimming pool walls disappear without a trace, and he returned to the wide sea.
And in the deep blue water, a black figure slowly swam over from the depths until it showed his true appearance.
A black-tailed mermaid approached slowly, he stretched out his hand to Lance, and said softly:
"Come here."
Seeing this scene, Lance almost shed tears.
The phantom in front of him turned out to be Wenser.
However, Lance was only confused for a few seconds because of the successful nesting.
After a few seconds, Lance easily saw that everything in front of him was an illusion. The black-tailed mermaid was just a phantom attached to the murloc. Lance saw the essence through the phantom.
In an instant, the swelling emotions in my heart disappeared.
But even knowing that what was in front of him was a phantom, Lance couldn't help but greedily look at the black-tailed mermaid in his memory.
He wanted to go back to the sea more and more, to return to Wenser's side.
When the murloc saw Lance sluggish, he thought that the illusion it woven had trapped Lance, so he slowly approached Lance while humming the same tone.
Is it courting? of course.
However, compared to courtship, the murlocs were more jealous towards the white mermaid in front of them.
In the end, there were only two murlocs who successfully escaped from the laboratory. Due to domain problems, the two murlocs were finally separated—
One is stronger and has a higher IQ. It went to the slums and became a woman in a white dress;
The other one, due to its lack of ability, went to the rich area with less food. In order to avoid being hunted down, it dared to hide in the sewer
Inside, until today met the white mermaid.
Before meeting the white mermaid, the murloc didn't have any awareness of its appearance, it always kept the appearance of coming out of the laboratory, hiding in the dark sewer.
It doesn't even understand why another, stronger murloc spends so much effort to create a weak appearance for himself.
But now, looking at the white mermaid that has evolved more completely and is more beautiful than them, the murloc suddenly understood the difference between beauty and ugliness at that moment.
It "smiles" shyly, drawing a harmless arc on the corners of its lips. It knows that the white mermaid in front of it likes to see its smile—
Even if it wears a layer of illusion.
The murloc tried to get close to Lance, it looked at Lance's tail with a longing expression.
When it was one meter away from Lance, the murloc stopped. It looked at the callus behind Lance with its innocent almond eyes, and then set its gaze on Lance's face.
Lance seemed unaware of the murloc's unscrupulous sizing up. His blue pupils were as clear as jewels in the water, containing the entire sea.
very beautiful.
There was such a concept vaguely in the murloc's shallow consciousness.
It stared at Lance's face longingly for a while, and then its petite, delicate and smiling face began to change—
A rift was torn from the corner of the mouth to the earlobe, exactly the same as the face that ate Earl Weir.
However, before the murloc opened his mouth, Lance, who had been keeping still before, suddenly turned his eyeballs. His previously slack eyes gathered, then raised his head, and opened his mouth to the approaching murloc:
[ay—]
The water in the swimming pool began to boil, and a jet of water hit the murloc's face sharply and quickly.
A large number of air bubbles hit the murloc's face, and the nearby water heated up due to resonance.
The murloc's line of sight was directly pierced by the white light, and the sharp sound wave hit it directly like an iron rod, and the huge sound wave engulfed the water wave and impacted it to the wall of the swimming pool in the distance.
The murloc was pressed against the pool wall, shaking like an epileptic.
After the sound wave stopped, the murloc slid down the swimming pool wall like a torn bag.
It leaned against the bottom of the swimming pool, raised its head, and its facial features gradually oozed out blue liquid, soon dyeing the nearby waters blue.
The murloc looked at Lance with his remaining eye and let out a sharp cry.
Since then, the war between it and Lance has been on the verge of breaking out.