Chapter 147 Underwater Adventure

Nangong Wuyue was swimming contentedly in the azure sea. Clearly, for this siren, the ocean was her true home—although she had never been to the deep sea, as per her mother’s wishes, her instinct in the water was innate.

Hao Ren was somewhat absentmindedly watching Nangong Wuyue’s posture in the water, only remarking on how big her tail was before falling silent.

“Ahaha… it’s been so long since I’ve been in the water, I’m a bit excited,” Nangong Wuyue said with a splash, popping her head out of the water in front of Hao Ren, holding onto the edge of the floating ice island, “Landlord, do you think my tail is pretty? It’s golden-red! Golden-red! Like the sunset.”

As she spoke, the siren girl swung her tail, stirring up even more water. After transforming, she was like a mermaid from a story, possessing a beautiful golden-red fishtail, adorned with two layers of magnificent lavender patterns. At the same time, her upper body was also changing: a portion of her skin from her forearms to her wrists was covered with pale-blue, scale-like patterns. Very fine scale-like patterns could also be seen on the lower half of her cheeks. These scales were not strange; they were small and delicately arranged, resembling beautiful tattoos. Nangong Wuyue’s original clothes had disappeared somewhere, and she was now wearing a strange “outfit” around her upper body that looked like fish scales, but also like leather, which was quite beautiful—and looked rather revealing.

The previous Nangong Wuyue was just an ordinary girl with average looks, but after transforming, she seemed to have gained a mysterious boost, giving her a stunning appearance. However, Hao Ren’s thought process was not quite the same as normal people, or perhaps the huskies and vampires at home had given him immunity to pretty girls. After marveling at how big her tail was, his second sentence was: “Where are your clothes?”

“Here,” Nangong Wuyue flicked her tail, sending an ice ball out of the water, which landed right on the floating ice island. Several pieces of clothing could be vaguely seen sealed inside the ice ball. “Yizaks, please help me check the clothes.”

Yizaks happily nodded, while Hao Ren tentatively reached out and touched the sea surface: “How do I get down there? Can you cast a spell on me?”

“Just go down like this~~” Nangong Wuyue cheerfully jumped out of the water, her large tail slapping Hao Ren on the back in a flash. Before he could react, he had already plunged into the sea with a splash, and the siren girl immediately chased after him with giggles.

Hao Ren only felt a blur before his eyes, and the sound of splashing water reached his ears, but the expected icy touch never arrived. He opened his eyes and found himself slowly sinking underwater, but a layer of shimmering “water membrane” was floating around him. This water membrane not only blocked the surrounding seawater, but even allowed him to breathe freely—aside from the strange feeling of floating in the water, he was no different from being on land!

A streak of gold flashed past his eyes; it was Nangong Wuyue’s beautiful and prideful large tail. The siren seemed much more excited in the water than on land. She quickly circled around Hao Ren several times, making him dizzy, before coming up and patting Hao Ren’s arm with her tail, giggling: “Landlord, how was it? Scared you, right?”

“You can talk?” Hao Ren opened his mouth in surprise, and found that his voice could be heard clearly, “You can talk like this underwater?”

“Sirens are part of the water, and water is part of the sirens,” Nangong Wuyue said, pulling Hao Ren towards the dark depths of the sea, “In this form, all the water within a spherical radius of one kilometer around me is an extension of my body. If I decide that you can breathe, speak, and be immune to water pressure in the water, then you can. But don’t swim too far, it will be ineffective beyond one kilometer.”

Hao Ren nodded, and began to experience this incredibly novel and strange adventure. In any case, with the siren pulling him, he didn’t need to swim himself.

Nangong Wuyue pulled Hao Ren’s arm and continued to dive downwards. The speed at which the mermaid swam was simply unbelievable. Although Hao Ren couldn’t feel the touch of water against his skin, he could tell from the speed at which the surrounding light dimmed and the acceleration he felt that the mermaid girl was swimming at a speed far exceeding any submarine. The large tail swayed lightly and gracefully in his vision, finally arousing Hao Ren’s curiosity: “Speaking of which, I remember seeing somewhere that sirens are not the same as mermaids… Mermaids have fish tails like you, but sirens have two types, one is a bird-shaped monster that flies over the sea, and the other has a sea serpent tail…”

“Sea serpent? You mean like this?” Nangong Wuyue released Hao Ren’s hand, giggling as she rolled around in the water. Her fish tail immediately diffused and became transparent like water, then quickly solidified into a golden-red tail that was three meters long, shaped like a sea serpent. The fine scale patterns on her face also slowly faded away, replaced by a strange blood-red pattern. The stunning impression of the mermaid princess disappeared, replaced by an indescribable strangeness and… bewitching charm.

This look was still very pretty, but it gave off a rather dangerous first impression. Hao Ren didn’t feel any danger, he just felt that this was more like a “siren”—the previous mermaid image was obviously too tender.

“You can transform a second time?” Hao Ren looked at Nangong Wuyue in surprise, the magnificent three-meter-long sea serpent tail making it difficult to look away, “…this has already crossed species, right?”

“It’s no problem to transform several times, sirens have no fixed form,” Nangong Wuyue simply wrapped her long tail around Hao Ren’s body, dragging her landlord towards the deep sea in an even stranger way, “Water has no fixed form, neither do we, so I can transform into any shape, whatever is convenient. I transformed into a mermaid just now because I thought you would like the fishtail look, after all, humans are more familiar with this image, but I didn’t expect you to know the other common images of sirens—by the way, do you want me to transform into a sea crab for you to see?”

A bunch of bizarre images flashed through his mind in an instant, and Hao Ren quickly shook his head: “Please don’t! Let me keep some good memories of my childhood.”

“Tch, I also wanted to transform into a jellyfish or a giant squid, the tentacles are so convenient,” Nangong Wuyue twisted her body and wrapped Hao Ren next to her, “Landlord, do you think the fishtail or the sea serpent tail looks better?”

Hao Ren: “……”

He felt that the pressure of living with these non-human creatures was increasing, because when you were with them, you always had to face similar strange questions. These guys didn’t consider the differences between themselves and humans in aesthetics and culture—Lili asked him a creative question the other day: which tastes better, a teething stick or a chew toy…

“I think they’re both pretty,” Hao Ren thought for a long time, and still used the lamest way to get away with it. There was no way, this question was a bit too bizarre. He took out his hand and touched the siren’s tail wrapped around his waist, feeling cold and slippery to the touch, “So… human legends about mermaids, sirens, sea monsters, and other messy things actually have the same source? It’s all you guys?”

“I don’t know, I wasn’t even an egg back then, but it’s probably like that. Maybe some senior went to the sea surface to breathe and was seen by humans. That’s how many legends on Earth came about. Even the mythical era was just like that, a bunch of ancient creatures forming gangs and fighting.”

“By the way, can you transform into a mantis shrimp?”

“I can, do you want to see it?”

“…Never mind, I was just asking.”

The two of them chatted while diving, and the light from the sea surface became increasingly dim as they continued to enter the deep sea. Finally, the surroundings became almost completely dark. Only the faint blue light emitted by the data terminal leading the way was particularly conspicuous. Hao Ren used his enhanced vision to barely distinguish the surroundings in the darkness, feeling that he had come to a mysterious and unpredictable realm.

In the far distance, some strangely shaped black shadows occasionally flashed past, or some shadows followed behind him and Nangong Wuyue from afar. These shadows should be the primitive creatures in this ocean—these primitive creatures didn’t seem to be of low intelligence. They had realized that two strange outsiders they had never heard of had appeared in the ocean, so they didn’t rashly rush up to attack. However, judging from the way they followed from afar, they were obviously not good people.

“Please don’t eat me…” Nangong Wuyue muttered, “Although I won’t die, it hurts so much…”

“As a siren, don’t you have any combat power?” Hao Ren found the Wuyue girl a bit amusing. Her timid appearance was simply unworthy of that three-meter-long powerful tail. Shouldn’t this look be the appearance of a deep-sea overlord?

“I have combat power, but I’ve never fought,” Nangong Wuyue muttered while speeding up, “And this isn’t Earth, who knows if the things in this sea will be troublesome. By the way, how long until we get there?”

The data terminal led the way in front of the two, guiding the direction of their advance with a blue beam of light: “Soon, we should be able to see it in a few minutes.”

At this time, it had forgotten about its deep-sea phobia. Obviously, it was just talking nonsense before.

Gradually, Hao Ren saw a few scattered lights appear in his field of vision ahead.