Lin Jiu's first reaction was to call out to the siren, but before he could open his mouth, the siren rushed straight towards the injured giant lantern fish, climbed onto the huge head of the giant lantern fish with skillful movements, pointed at the aircraft, and let out a sharp scream.
The giant lantern fish, which had already been angered, swung its tail and rushed towards the aircraft.
Lin Jiu: “…”
Oh shit!
He originally thought that it was Si Xu who rescued the siren from the giant sea monster's mouth, but he didn't expect that the siren and the giant lantern fish were actually in the same group!
If the aircraft was hit by such a big thing, it would probably have to be returned to the factory for repairs.
Si Xu reacted quickly and quickly controlled the aircraft to dodge.
The giant lantern fish is so large that every time it swings its tail, the water flow hinders the speed of the aircraft.
Si Xu had no choice but to float up.
The siren seemed not to let them go and called out again. The giant lantern fish seemed to understand what the siren meant and swung its tail vigorously, chasing after the aircraft.
Lin Jiu was a little anxious, "Let me go, we are the same kind, I will communicate with her."
Si Xu: "There are too many giant sea monsters here. She is protected by a giant lantern fish. If she goes out, she will probably be attacked by other giant sea monsters."
Lin Jiu looked back at the giant lantern fish that was chasing after him, "She is hiding alone on the seabed, and her appearance is very strange. Maybe she is related to the Haijia tribe. I must go down and take a look."
Si Xu: "Don't worry, I'll lead the lantern fish to a place where there are fewer giant sea monsters."
Lin Jiu was worried that the giant lantern fish would suddenly stop chasing him and turn away, but it turned out that he was overthinking.
Neither the siren nor the giant lantern fish wanted to let them go, and it was obvious that they wanted them to die here.
The giant lantern fish opened its mouth wide, trying to swallow the aircraft in one gulp. The aircraft suddenly accelerated, and the giant lantern fish bit it empty with a "click".
After a few times, the Siren seemed to have discovered that the flying vehicle was luring the lantern fish away. Worried that it was a trap, she patted the giant lantern fish's head, and the giant lantern fish, which was chasing it madly, stopped.
Lin Jiu: “…”
Damn it! Why did you suddenly stop chasing me
The Siren and the Giant Lantern Fish stopped where they were and stared at the aircraft.
Lin Jiu: "I want to go out."
We are now in the sea, and the aircraft cannot be opened casually. If we want to open it, we must first float to the surface of the sea.
Lin Jiu was worried that the Siren would leave, so he asked the system to help keep an eye on it.
The aircraft surfaced out of the sea, and Lin Jiu skillfully took off his clothes and shoes and put them in the aircraft. The situation was urgent, and Lin Jiu even forgot to be shy. He stripped himself naked, opened the cabin door, and dived into the sea.
Si Xu stood on the sea, put away the aircraft, and followed Lin Jiu into the sea.
When Si Xu entered the sea, Lin Jiu's mermaid form had not yet fully appeared. Lin Jiu rolled in the sea and seemed to be in great pain. His hand and leg bones were deforming, and the transformation process was very short.
After the siren form appeared, Lin Jiu paused for a few seconds, then swam towards the bottom of the sea with a swing of his tail.
The giant lantern fish had not left yet, and the female mermaid was still sitting on its head. She saw such a perfect mermaid swimming towards her. The female mermaid was completely stunned and stared at the strange mermaid approaching.
No, it's not strange... The mermaid couldn't explain what this feeling was, her heart was tightened.
The same was true for Lin Jiu. When he faced Lottie and Lailei before, he had a good impression of them and wanted to get closer to them. But when facing this female mermaid, Lin Jiu truly felt what kinship was.
Lin Jiu looked at the mermaid and his eyes instantly turned red. Twenty years of wandering and helplessness turned into grievances at this moment, and he wanted to cry.
When he was in the aircraft, looking at the mermaid, he was not very moved, but when he turned into a mermaid and entered the sea, it was extremely clear.
The sea water was their medium, making him clearly aware of the identity of the mermaid.
Lin Jiu stopped in front of the giant lantern fish and did not approach it, but just looked at the mermaid from a distance.
Si Xu caught up from behind and stopped beside Lin Jiu. He keenly noticed that Lin Jiu was in a bad mood.
The mermaid's bloodline was not as pure as Lin Jiu's. This was the first time she had this feeling, and she hadn't realized what it meant.
She just looked at them in shock. In addition to a perfect mermaid, there was also a human who could stay in the sea for a long time. Who were they? !
Lin Jiu found that the mermaid did not seem to recognize him, so he immediately took off the mask on his face and handed it to Si Xu, who put the mask in his pocket.
The mermaid was even more shocked. She stared at Lin Jiu's face with disbelief.
Lin Jiu looked very similar to his grandmother, Verna Elton, and coupled with the strange feeling in her heart, the mermaid immediately realized something.
She stared at Lin Jiu with wide eyes, her eyes were red but no tears were visible.
The female mermaid left the big head of the giant lantern fish and swam forward unconsciously, wanting to take a closer look at the young man.
Lin Jiu's eyes were also red, and he said in the sea, "Are you Ms. Vera?"
This was the first time that Lin Jiu spoke in the sea. As a human being, he always felt that he could not speak in the sea. But the fact was that he could speak, but it was just a psychological effect. He always felt that the sea water would pour into his mouth and nose as soon as he opened his mouth.
Just like the first time he went into the sea, he was so scared that he held his breath and dared not breathe, until he could hold it no longer and took a breath. As a result, he did not choke on water and he could breathe freely in the water.
The siren's lips trembled and she nodded, nodded hard.
Si Xu was surprised. He had also seen Vera's photo. The female mermaid in front of him had a layer of small scales on her face and skin, making it difficult to recognize her original appearance. Even with Si Xu's ability to recognize people, he couldn't recognize her, so it was even less likely that Lin Jiu would recognize her.
Si Xu knew without thinking that Lin Jiu must have recognized the other person through blood relationship.
The female mermaid swung her tail and came close to Lin Jiu. She looked at Lin Jiu's face carefully, stretched out her hand covered with tiny scales, and carefully stroked Lin Jiu's face, her eyes full of pain and pity.
Lin Jiu knew that the mermaid should be crying, but he could not see her tears. Her tears all flowed into the sea.
The Siren made a sound, "What's your name?"
"My name is Lin Jiu."
The mermaid was stunned and said in a trembling voice: "You, your surname is not Liao? Why not Liao? Isn't he my child?"
Lin Jiu held her hand and said, "I am Vera's child, but my last name is not Liao."
The mermaid grabbed Lin Jiu tightly, "Why? What happened?"
This is a long story. Lin Jiu pointed to the sea and said that they needed to go up and talk. Si Xu was not a sea creature and could not stay in the sea for a long time.
Lin Jiu expressed his desire to go up, but there were no reefs nearby. If he went up to talk, it might require Si Xu to expend energy to create a flat surface that could support them.
The siren swam back, called out softly twice, and pointed towards the sea surface. The giant lantern fish seemed to understand what she meant and began to float up.
Lin Jiu grabbed Si Xu and followed him upstream.
The giant lantern fish exposed its back and big head above the sea surface. The mermaid, Lin Jiu and Si Xu all climbed up and sat on the big head of the giant lantern fish, completely exposed to the sun.
The siren looked around vigilantly, patted the giant lantern fish's head, and let it sink into the sea.
Lin Jiu then told her why his last name was Lin instead of Liao. Vera couldn't stop crying. While she hated the Liao family, she felt sorry for her only child. She hugged Lin Jiu again and again, but still felt it was not enough.
Lin Jiu helped her wipe away her tears, "I am living a good life now."
Vera was still crying. Thinking of her child and how much suffering he had gone through, Vera felt her heart was broken.
The only reason she is alive today is her child. She wants to live to see her child again, otherwise she would not have been able to hold on until now.
After a lot of consolation from Lin Jiu, she finally stopped crying.
What Lin Jiu cared about most was Vera's experience. He asked her why she was here and why she looked like this
Vera didn't care about herself, but was very worried about Lin Jiu, "Why is he in the form of a mermaid? Was he also captured by Haijia?"
Lin Jiu shook his head, "No, I turned into a mermaid on my own, it has nothing to do with others."
Vera breathed a sigh of relief. "That's good. That's good."
Vera talked about why she became like this.
Vera has always known that she is a descendant of the Sirens. Her mother Weiner did not hide it from her and even told her why they were hiding everywhere. In Weiner's heart, it was the Sirens and the Haiga tribe who killed her lover and Vera's father. They are all enemies.
In order to save Vera's life, Weiner cruelly changed her appearance, forged her identity, and sent her to live in Country Z, while Weiner stayed abroad to attract the attention of the Elton and Cecil families.
After giving birth to Lin Jiu, Vera knew that she didn't have much time left. If she were alone, she could die calmly, but she had a child, and the child was so young. She couldn't bear to leave her child or die, so she wanted to go to the sea to find a chance of survival.
On the sea, she met a foreign girl who was floating on the sea holding a large wine barrel. Out of kindness, Vera rescued the girl and brought her onto the boat. The girl said there were pirates here and asked Vera to leave the sea area immediately.
Vera went out to sea in search of survival, but didn't want to die at the hands of pirates, so she immediately turned around and left. However, not long after she escaped, her ship was attacked, and she and the girl were both shot and fell into the sea. When she woke up again, she was on a strange large ship.
Later, Vera found out that they were not pirates but members of the Cecil family, and the girl she rescued was also a descendant of the Sirens.
Vera said, "Later, we were sent to a research institute where the Cecil family was doing research, hoping to develop a potion that could restore the Sirens and Heijia to their original state... They succeeded."
Otherwise, she wouldn't be alive today. She was doomed to die, but she survived thanks to the Cecil family's research.
Vera didn't say much about what happened at the institute, it was her lifelong nightmare.
"Some time ago, the palace of the ancient clan was suspected to be discovered on the high seas. The Cecil family sent all the sea monsters and sea magpies who could transform into their original forms there. We hid in the seabed in advance, waiting for the opportunity to act."
Vera stayed in the research institute for many years. She wanted to escape from there countless times. The high seas mission gave her hope. She pretended to carry out the mission, but in fact she was already prepared to escape.
When the Sirens and the Sea Kings took action, she would always lag behind, so when the underwater palace exploded, she was the farthest away and received the least damage, but she was also seriously injured. She was blown away and fainted in the cracks of the rocks on the seabed.
When she woke up, she found a large lantern fish beside her, which had been guarding Vera.
Vera was badly injured and stuck in the cracks of the rocks, unable to move. She was very hungry and reached out to catch the passing sea fish, but because of her severe injuries and slow movements, she couldn't catch anything.
The lantern fish seemed to know that she was hungry, so it left for a while, and when it came back, it spit out a few small fish from its mouth for Vera to eat.
Vera was very weak and had no choice but to eat those small fishes in order to survive.
Seeing Vera eating the fish, the lantern fish wagged its tail around Vera, seeming very happy. It turned around and caught another fish to feed Vera.
In this way, when Vera was seriously injured, it was this lantern fish that fed her. The lantern fish took good care of her. When other fish that had grown larger wanted to attack Vera, the lantern fish protected Vera like a baby and fought with other fish.
The lantern fish grew bigger and bigger. After driving away its enemy again, it smashed the rock with its head and rescued Vera from the crevice of the rock. The lantern fish opened its mouth wide.
Vera didn't understand at first. The lantern fish opened its mouth wide, approached Vera cautiously, and put Vera in its mouth. The lantern fish might have been worried that Vera would be scared, so it didn't dare to close its mouth at first and kept it open, letting Vera sleep in its mouth.
Later, Vera got used to it and would hide in the giant lantern fish's mouth every time she rested. Every time she did this, the lantern fish would close its serrated teeth and take Vera around, like coaxing a child to sleep.
During these few months in the sea, it was the giant lantern fish that took care of Vera, so when the giant lantern fish was attacked, Vera was so angry that she rushed out to fight the attacker. However, she did not expect to meet her worried child in this situation.
Lin Jiu also didn't expect that although he came here to find the magic crystal marrow, purify his blood, improve his strength, and prepare to rescue Vera, he didn't expect that Vera had her own plans and escaped by herself.
It was not until this time that Lin Jiu and Si Xu understood why Haijia went around in circles to find the Liao family. The news that Lin Jiu was Vera's child was spreading like wildfire on the Internet. The Cecil family must have received the news and wanted to immigrate Lin Jiu abroad through the Liao family.
The Cecil family probably thought that Vera was dead, and deliberately told Lin Jiu that his mother was still alive and in their hands. They really wanted to lure Lin Jiu over and capture him.
Unfortunately, they never expected that Vera was not dead, but had been hiding at the bottom of the sea and was met by Lin Jiu.
Maybe the Cecil family didn't expect that Lin Jiu would be so stubborn as to come to the sea area with the most serious radiation and groups of giant sea monsters to look for the magic crystal marrow. Anyone with a normal mind would not do such a thing. Coming here would undoubtedly be tantamount to seeking death, but Lin Jiu came anyway.
There is one thing Lin Jiu can't figure out. It has been several months since the explosion of the palace on the high seas. This amount of time is enough for Vera to recover from her injuries. Why didn't she go to Country Z to find him
Speaking of this, Vera's eyes became red again.
She was filled with guilt, "Mom is sorry for you. I thought about going back to find you, but I can't... I can't appear in front of people like this. I'm also afraid that the Cecil family will notice you. I can't let you down..."
Lin Jiu didn't understand, "What do you mean?"
Vera looked at her arms and the broken fish tail. "I can't transform into this form by myself. I need to use potions. There are potions to activate the mermaid form. If I want to return to land, I need to inject potions to restore my human form."
Almost all the sirens and sea monsters who went to the sea to carry out the mission at that time died. If Vera had not fallen behind on purpose and waited for an opportunity to escape, she would not have survived.
Lin Jiu frowned deeply.
Lin Jiu: System, please help me check whether this medicine is harmful to my mother's body.
The system gives results quickly.
The damage is great. The drug will destroy genetic tissue. Once activated, it will kill a batch of siren genes. After three times, almost all siren genes can be killed. Then there will be no more siren genes in her body, and other genes will also be destroyed. As far as I know, this plane cannot cure genetic diseases.
Lin Jiu clenched his fists tightly and gritted his teeth in hatred.
The answer from the Demon Hunting System was shared with Si Xu, who also heard the result. He patted Lin Jiu soothingly.
Si Xu asked: "How many times have you transformed into a sea monster?"
Vera looked at him, not yet getting to know the young man properly.
Si Xu: "Hello, my name is Si Xu, I am..."
Si Xu paused and looked at Lin Jiu.
Lin Jiu held Si Xu's hand, "Mom, he is my boyfriend."
Vera was stunned, and nodded slowly after a moment. After going through so much, she had no objection to the child's sexual orientation. As long as the child was happy, she would not object.
Lin Jiu asked again, "Mom, how many times have you transformed into a mermaid?"
Vera: "It changed once at the research institute. This is the second time. What's wrong?"
Lin Jiu and Si Xu breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.