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

Chapter 395 The Bride of the Sea God (62)

Nolan could still send messages while staying on the ship, and Yan Zhen instinctively felt that the merman chieftain's move to send him into the water had ulterior motives, so she subconsciously wanted to stop him.

But as she reached out her hand, she paused, remembering Nolan's discomfort on the shore.

A few seconds later, she silently withdrew her hand.

Nolan took off his clothes and jumped into the sea, quickly disappearing from everyone's sight.

More than ten minutes later, he resurfaced on the surface of the sea several hundred meters away, followed by hundreds of mermaids.

Humans and mermaids, one on a ship and the other in the sea, began negotiations, separated by a distance of several hundred meters.

Nolan moves back and forth between the two, translating and relaying the conversations between the two different races.

The mermaids demand that humans stop hunting them.

Humans explained that the land-dwelling human race is divided into many countries, each with its own laws, and they can only promise on behalf of their own country to stop hunting killer fish.

They will also suggest that other countries legislate to protect mermaids, but whether those countries accept such legislation is beyond their control.

The mermaid chieftain expressed his understanding and made a second request—to release all the mermaids on land back into the sea.

Human authorities have agreed to legislate against the private keeping of mermaids and have also stipulated that mermaids cannot use their ocean advantages to cause any disasters that threaten human lives within China's borders.

Nolan relayed these words to the merfolk.

This time, it took him more than ten minutes to slowly swim to the front of the ship with the merfolk's reply.

"The chieftain said that as long as humans do not threaten the safety of the merfolk, the merfolk will absolutely not provoke conflict first. To show the merfolk's sincerity, from now on..."

Nolan looked up at Yan Zhen as he finished speaking, "All the merfolk will stay away from the coast and will no longer have any contact with humans."

The official human negotiator immediately stated: "Okay, from now on all Chinese ships and underwater operations will avoid the waters where the merfolk live, and we will never provoke them."

At this point in the negotiations, both sides reached a consensus.

Instead of immediately turning around to relay the human negotiator's words back to the Merfolk, Nolan turned to look hundreds of meters away and used ultrasound to transmit his message.

The merfolk in the distance quickly responded, seemingly asking Nolan to come over.

Nolan hesitated, remaining motionless in front of the ship.

The mermaids' voices became shrill.

Nolan then reluctantly swam over.

Soon, it seemed that a dispute had broken out among the merfolk, and splashes of water rose from the sea.

The negotiator on the ship squinted and looked in that direction: "What's wrong with them? Are they fighting amongst themselves?"

Yan Zhen didn't speak.

Suddenly a loud shout came from over there, as if a mermaid had been slapped away.

Nolan then disappeared into the sea.

Less than two seconds later, he quickly poked his head out from the side of the boat, grabbed the edge with both hands, and tried anxiously to climb onto the boat.

But just as he climbed onto the edge of the boat, Asaya and another adult mermaid emerged from the sea behind him like ghosts, grabbed Nolan's hands on either side, and forcibly pulled him into the water, twisting him and trying to take him away.

Nolan was furious and turned around, slapping one of the mermaids away with a single blow.

Just as he was about to shake off Asaya, an elderly fish with gray hair appeared in front of him and slapped Nolan hard across the face.

Nolan shuddered as he was hit.

The elderly merman, presumably the chieftain of the merfolk, sternly rebuked Nolan a few times. Seeing that he had calmed down, he ordered Asaya to take him away.

Asaya grabbed Nolan's arm and tried to drag him away, at which point Nolan struggled again.

"I'm not going back!" Nolan looked up at Yan Zhen on the ship, her words meant for Yan Zhen and the clan leader to hear, "I'm not going back, I don't want to be separated from Xia Xia."

The mermaid chieftain was clearly angered by Nolan, and raised his hand to slap him on the back of the head again.

Nolan staggered forward from the blow, a hint of fear in her eyes, but her gaze remained stubbornly and urgently fixed on Yan Zhen: "Xiaxia, Xiaxia! You promised me you wouldn't leave me!"

Yan Zhen: "..."

She said nothing.

Mermaids have shorter lifespans when they come ashore, and reason tells her that returning to the ocean and never having contact with humans again is the best option for Nolan.

Nolan saw her reaction and was on the verge of tears: "Xiaxia! Xiaxia! You promised you wouldn't lie to me! Ahhhhh! Xiaxia!"

Yan Zhen hardened his heart and shook his head: "You can't stay on the shore."

Returning to the ocean, he can stay with his parents, and the vast ocean allows him to roam freely.

Staying on land, he could only stay in a small fish tank, forcing himself to adapt to the dry air and the human society he didn't like.

"No!" Nolan cried, tears streaming down her face. "No, you're lying to me! You liar!"

Asaya and another mermaid tried to take him away again.

Enraged, Nolan flicked his tail, sending Asya and the mermaid flying far away.

After doing all this, he wiped away his tears and used his webbed claws to tear off a large piece of scale from his body.

Yan Zhen was startled.

As soon as the scales were torn open, the stench of blood instantly filled the sea.

The clan leader was shocked and quickly reached out to stop Nolan.

Nolan ignored it, his gaze fixed on Yan Zhen, and continued tearing off the scales from his body.

Yan Zhen: "..."

Nolan said that scales are the mermaid's protective armor, and they are essential for swimming in the deep sea and resisting water pressure. If more than one hundred scales are lost, the mermaid will risk dying if she enters the deep sea again.

He was using this method to force the merfolk to abandon him, and also to force Yan Zhen to stay with him.

The clan chief, enraged by his inability to stop Nolan, slapped him repeatedly on the head and back, letting out a roar that Yan Zhen couldn't understand.

Nolan ignored it, stubbornly and resolutely tearing off the scales on his body.

With each scale torn off, he would shudder in pain.

Blood stained the seawater around Nolan.

This scene stung Yan Zhen's eyes.

As the mermaid chieftain grabbed Nolan's long hair, attempting to forcibly drag him away, Yan Zhen drew a pistol from the waist of his bodyguard and fired a shot into the sky.

With a loud "bang," the mermaids a hundred meters away were startled and shrank back into the sea like frightened birds, only peeking out with their terrified eyes.

The mermaid chieftain was also startled.

"Let him go."

Yan Zhen pointed the gun downwards, not at any mermaid, but the way he stared at the mermaid chieftain gave it a strong intuition—if it refused, this human woman would shoot through its head the next moment.

These words made Nolan's eyes light up. He immediately stopped tearing off the scales and swam towards Yan Zhen.

But as soon as he made a move, the clan chief grabbed his long hair and dragged him back.

"No." The merfolk chieftain said in broken human language, "He is a merfolk."

Yan Zhen raised his hand, aiming the gun at the merfolk in the distance: "Either let him stay, or you will all die tonight."

As soon as she finished speaking, the dozen or so bodyguards belonging to the Si family on the ship raised their guns and aimed them at the merfolk in the distance.