Abstinence Admiral Don't Bite, the Softer Mermaid Top Thug

Chapter 86: Scales and Cores Peeling Off
The barrier was covered with cracks in the shape of a honeycomb matrix, so fine and dense that it seemed as if every crack was seeping with strange blue flames. When Lu Lianbai tore a hole in it with his bare hands, the blue flames on the matrix almost instantly rushed towards Lu Lianbai's entire body.

Blue flames as violent as magma kept gushing out from the gap.

Lu Lianbai seemed to be unable to feel the pain. He gathered his spiritual net and rushed into the gap that had just been torn open and was rapidly shrinking inward.

Hess swam over from behind and roared, "Lu Lianbai, are you crazy?"

He stretched out his tentacles very quickly, but still failed to stop Lu Lianbai. He watched as a human being relied on his own mental network that could collapse at any time to resolutely rush into the gap that was spewing blue flames.

Hess gritted his teeth, used all his tentacles to protect his vital parts, and rushed in.

Almost at the moment of jumping into the gap, the barrier condensed again and returned to its original state, and the tentacles on Hess's body were not unexpectedly completely shattered by the scorching blue flames.

Fortunately, his tentacles had the ability to regenerate. After enduring a brief period of severe pain, Hess waved away a short section of the newly grown tentacle and dragged the water flow.

and many more.

Where is that guy Lu Lianbai?
Could it be that it was burned into nutrients on the seabed the moment it rushed in?
Hess searched around in the sea in fear. He was not afraid that Lu Lianbai was dead, but that if he really found Mianmian later, Mianmian would ask him for her!
……

At this time in the small fishing village.

After listening to Jing Weimian's words, Auntie looked at Jing Weimian for a long time, and finally rolled up her cuffs.

Now Jing Weimian could see more clearly that the fish scale texture on the aunt's wrist skin was actually different from the shape of normal mermaid scales, and was even a little weird and irregularly deformed.

Jing Weimian stared at his aunt's hand in a daze, "How could it be..."

"I didn't tell you before because I was afraid Weimian would be terrified after you knew. Those who live in the small fishing village are actually a guard team exiled here by the mermaid royal family. Your uncle Yan and I are the leaders of that guard team..."

"I can't remember how many years have passed. During these years, every mermaid who tried to escape this cursed sea ended up being buried at the bottom of the sea."

Jing Weimian frowned: "A curse?"

Auntie nodded gently. "Mermaids exiled here will eventually lose their mermaid form. So it's not that I'm deliberately hiding this from you, but... I really can't turn back into a mermaid."

Jing Weimian pondered for a moment.

No wonder Uncle Yan didn't mention her mermaid identity when he found her and the baby at sea that day.

They probably thought they were exiled here, right?
"Aunt, you just said that you, Uncle Yan, and the villagers in the fishing village are all from the same guard team. So, what were you doing back then for—"

Before she could finish her words, Jing Weimian suddenly felt her chest sink, and she subconsciously pressed the part of her heart that was beating abnormally.

Auntie noticed that Jing Weimian was not in a good state and immediately reached out to support her. "What's wrong, Weimian?"

Jing Weimian pressed his violently beating heart, and at the moment when his fingertips instinctively extended into a webbed arc, he clearly sensed something.

Scale core...it's her scale core.

Jing Weimian hurriedly said to her aunt, "Aunt, I have something urgent to do. Let's talk when I come back." As soon as she left the yard, Jing Xiaoyu stood up as soon as she saw her come out, but before she could say anything, Jing Weimian put her hand in her arms and rushed towards the beach.

"Jing Weimian, where are we going?"

"Something might have happened to Lu Lianbai!"

Jing Xiaoyu was confused. "Is Dad here too?"

Jing Weimian could clearly sense that the scale core was getting closer and closer to her. She placed the little fish cub on the beach and said, "Baby, wait here for me. I'll go to the sea and check it out first!"

Having said that, without waiting for Jing Xiaoyu to answer, Jing Weimian sank into the seabed with the rising waves.

Logically speaking, if the scale core was still inside Lu Lianbai's body, she wouldn't be able to sense its location so clearly. There was only one possibility: the scale core had detached from Lu Lianbai's heart and was very close to her, so she could feel it approaching her...

But how could the scale core fall off from Lu Lianbai's body for no reason?
Jing Weimian thought of the barrier deep in the sea and had some bad suspicions in his mind.

The pink tail fin scurried across the seabed, and wherever it went, the ocean currents behind it swirled into white waves at high speed.

After an unknown amount of time, Jing Weiman pushed aside the towering coral reefs in front of her and found a shimmering pink circle of light not far ahead. She swam closer and saw that it was the light emitted by her scale core that formed a huge pink bubble barrier, protecting her inside the bubble barrier.

The moment Jing Weiman stretched out her webbed hands to catch it, the scale core sensed her touch, the water ripples trembled, and swam up along the scale texture of her fishtail tip, automatically fitting back into position at her heart.

Almost in an instant, the fin threads that originally covered both sides of the tail fin spread out and fluffed up into layers of pink petal skirts, gorgeous and slender. Moreover, the memory scales that had been lost also quickly grew back because of the return of the scale cores.

Pink light like fine stardust flowed between the webbed hands. Jing Weiman used the long gauze fin tail that was about to expand into a semicircle to catch the person falling from the broken bubble barrier.

It picks up the human by swinging its long tail.

As expected, the person who came into view was Lu Lianbai, no...

The young man currently being embraced by her fishtail still had the same face as Lu Lianbai, but compared to General Lu, who had fought on the interstellar battlefield for many years, he had lost the calm and stern look tempered by his time in the army. His features now looked cold and fair, just like... Lu Lianbai in his youth...

Jing Weimian reached out and pulled off the slightly long and loose military uniform on him. After seeing clearly that the fish scale mark that belonged to her was still printed above his heart, she was completely sure that she had not made a mistake. This was Lu Lianbai.

Jing Weimian's eyebrows twitched, and he suddenly thought of what his aunt had said.

If a mermaid stays in this sea area for too long, her tail will degenerate, but Lu Lianbai is a human. Could it be that he was indirectly affected by this sea area and directly degenerated to the juvenile stage?
Before she could think about it further, she caught a glimpse of a sneaky figure under the coral reef. Jing Weimian swam over quickly and pulled it out.

"Mianmian is me!"

Jing Weimian naturally recognized that the person in front of her, waving several small tentacles, was Hess. She looked him over and confirmed that Hess was not seriously injured. She tilted her head and asked, "How is he?"

(End of this chapter)