The villains are redeemed, and the heroines cry and beg for forgiveness.

After swimming in the sea for a long time, Gu Ran fumbled for the conch necklace around her neck.

"I don't know how this necklace works, but it actually helps me breathe and move freely in the sea. I wish they could be mass-produced... then..."

"It doesn't seem to do me any good either."

Gu Ran couldn't help but chuckle to himself.

After letting his mind wander for a while, Gu Ran suddenly noticed the heavy atmosphere in the room.

Is the big one coming?

Gu Ran focused his attention and looked ahead.

The faces of the mermaids ahead were also filled with caution, no, or rather, fear...

It was a fear akin to facing a natural enemy.

"Go hide in the deep sea!" Gu Ran shouted to the mermaids as he felt the waves of the ocean.

Their presence here would only be a burden to Gu Ran, and the only place they could hide was the deep sea. If they were to dive down too late, they would be in trouble if those sea monsters and ferocious beasts bit their tails.

"You...you really want to fight them?" Alice's lips trembled slightly as she turned to look at Gu Ran. "Let's escape together. It's not too late to escape now. As long as we dive into the deep sea fast enough, they won't be able to catch us."

Gu Ran found it somewhat amusing. Was this a case of being stubborn on the outside but soft on the inside? She had just been scolding him.

"It's alright. Isn't our purpose in coming here to find them? If we don't even greet them, wouldn't that be a waste?" Gu Ran said with a smile. "Don't worry, if I really can't deal with them, I'll still run away. I can run away much faster than you guys."

"You'd better run away now, or you might not be able to escape, and that would be a burden to me."

Gu Ran pretended to be troubled and said.

"You—" Alice felt like she was about to be driven mad by Gu Ran.

What do you mean by "you've dragged me down"? Is that even human language?

Oh well, humans are just inherently annoying. Never mind.

Alice snorted coldly, ignoring Gu Ran, and instead beckoned to the two mermaids beside her. She moved her lips a few times, said something, and then immediately began to dive into the deep sea.

Before long, Gu Ran sensed the presence of several enormous auras around him. However, they did not rush towards him directly, but instead circled around him before disappearing into the deep sea.

"We can't let you leave so easily." Gu Ran immediately dived into the sea as well.

With the help of the conch necklace, Gu Ran swam in the sea as if she were a fish in water, faster than most fish. Before long, Gu Ran caught up with them.

It must be said that the sea is a place where giant beasts abound.

Although he had already made some estimates in his mind, Gu Ran still couldn't help but marvel when he saw the enormous body of the sea beast in front of him.

Its body, as thick as a small mountain, was made of enormous flesh and blood. Its body was a translucent white color and it was at least several hundred meters long from head to tail. Its shape resembled an enormous sea serpent.

"No wonder the merfolk feel a lot of pressure. If they are being chased by such behemoths, their entire race would probably be swallowed whole by one of these creatures."

Gu Ran thought to himself.

Compared to such a sea beast, Gu Ran's body was utterly insignificant, like a slightly larger speck of dust.

The sea monster indeed ignored Gu Ran and instead opened its huge mouth to spew seawater.

"Is this how they track down the merfolk's 'scent'?"

Gu Ran had a thought in his mind, but he didn't delay any longer and began to absorb the spiritual energy in the ocean.

Hum—

A huge ripple came from the water, and the enormous sea beast turned its head toward Gu Ran.

The huge red eyes stared at Gu Ran, like a bright red lantern illuminating a mosquito.

"Humanity?"

Suddenly, Gu Ran felt a voice in his mind.

This sea monster?!

Gu Ran was greatly surprised. This sea beast could actually talk?

How did this information get into my mind?

seawater?

“I don’t speak your human language. It’s just a racial talent of ours. You can think of it as a kind of mental wave. We can capture the unique mental waves of any intelligent race we’ve ever eaten, and then we can ‘talk’ to other members of that intelligent race.”

That voice rang directly in Gu Ran's mind again.

Mental wave?

What is this thing? Its spirit even has waves?

A strong sense of curiosity arose in Gu Ran's heart. This was a blind spot in his knowledge; he had never imagined that a sea beast could "communicate" with him directly through some kind of magical mental wave.

In an instant, Gu Ran wondered if humans could control these mental waves, would they be able to directly "communicate" with other intelligent races?

However, this kind of mental wave can only be controlled by consuming a corresponding intelligent race. In other words, this sea monster can communicate with him because it has already consumed a human.

However, thinking about this, Gu Ran didn't feel any hatred.

Sea monsters eat people, but humans also hunt sea monsters.

Although the sea beast was trying to convey its meaning to him, Gu Ran was unable to reply to it with his own words.

Because at this moment, he can only move freely in the ocean, but he cannot open his mouth to speak, because if he does, a large amount of seawater will be swallowed.

However, he did not possess the sea monster's "mental waves," so the sea monster could only communicate with him unilaterally.

After thinking for a moment, Gu Ran stretched out an index finger towards the sea beast, first pointing to the direction Alice and the others had fled below, then pointing to the sea beast, and finally shaking it from side to side.

"Human, are you in league with those half-human, half-fish monsters?" the voice continued to ask in Gu Ran's mind.

Gu Ran was taken aback.

A half-human, half-fish monster?

It seems... there's nothing wrong with it.

Gu Ran nodded, then put his fingers together and made a throat-slitting gesture.

Since they can even understand human mental waves, they should be able to understand this posture too.

"Are you provoking me?" The voice was filled with anger. "If you could have revealed the whereabouts of those half-human, half-monsters, I might have spared your life, but how dare you be so ungrateful?"

So, the reason they struck up a conversation with me was to ask about the whereabouts of the merfolk.

Gu Ran understood what the sea beast meant.

It seems that many sea creatures have indeed developed a high level of intelligence, even able to figure out how to ask for directions. Moreover, it actually found the right person; it did indeed know the approximate direction of the merfolk.

However, Gu Ran naturally couldn't tell it.

On the contrary, Gu Ran would enter its body, treat it cruelly, hurt it, destroy it, and make it bleed profusely!

Feeling the abundance of spiritual energy in his dantian, Gu Ran charged forward and punched through the sea beast's body.

This sea beast had a huge body, but its strength was far inferior, and Gu Ran easily broke through its defenses.

Although its defenses were breached, the sea monster's body was so enormous that the damage was so small that it didn't even feel pain.

"Ha, human, what are you doing? Trying to tickle me?" The voice was extremely disdainful.

"Fine, since you don't know what's good for you, then I'll go find them myself."

The next moment, a huge whirlpool suddenly formed in the ocean.

At the very center of the whirlpool was the sea monster's gaping maw—it seemed ready to devour everything!

At the same time, its muscles suddenly became harder than steel, and Gu Ran, who was inside the sea monster's body, instantly felt immense pressure.

If Gu Ran were to try to escape at this moment, he would also be surrounded by the huge whirlpool and might be sucked into the mouth of this sea monster.

However, if he doesn't escape, the muscles, harder than steel, will press increasingly harder against his body, and if Gu Ran wants to continue penetrating deeper into the sea beast's body, the difficulty will double.

"They are indeed quite skilled. If it were an ordinary person, they would probably be helpless under this attack from both inside and outside."

Gu Ran used his hands to pry open the sea beast's muscles, which were as hard as steel and trying to close up, and threw another punch forward. Moreover, in order to save time, the range of energy released by this punch was very large.

It was as if Gu Ran had grown a giant arm on his back to clear a path for him. Under Gu Ran's relentless punches, even though the sea beast's muscles were as hard as steel, it still couldn't stop Gu Ran's advance.

"What are you doing?"

The sea monster's voice suddenly carried a hint of surprise.

"Nothing, I just wanted to take a look inside your belly." At this moment, Gu Ran was inside the sea monster's muscles, so the seawater had disappeared, and he could speak.

"You...you're arrogant!"

"If you go into my stomach, you're asking for death."

The sea monster's voice still carried an air of superiority.

Gu Ran smiled, ignored it, and continued to drive forward.

Gradually, the sea monster's muscles began to twitch.

Gu Ran guessed that it was because he had been continuously damaging the sea beast's body that the sea beast finally couldn't bear the pain and its muscles began to twitch.

"Human, don't you have any wishes you want to fulfill? What you're doing is a lose-lose situation!"

Gu Ran ignored him. He had to deal with other sea beasts and ferocious beasts later, so he didn't have time to waste on this sea beast.