Her Tentacles 96

Chapter 96: Afterword 5

On the shore of a shallow blue bay as clear as crystal.

The unique thatched roof stretched out behind them, and the rough, natural style of decoration had exquisite details. For example, next to the rattan chair Shu Yao was currently lying on, besides the open parasol, there was also a hotel staff member who came over to ask her if she wanted to experience a spa treatment.

Shu Yao bit the straw of her watermelon juice and shook her head, saying that she didn’t need it for now. By the time the nearby people had left, leaving this uniquely endowed viewing area to her and Situ Jin on the chair next to her, she had managed to suppress her overly eager gossipy eyes and asked with restraint:

“Can we talk now?”

Lin Ran had been sent away, and Xuan Zhu had also been sent away. If not now, when would she listen to gossip?

Situ Jin lazily squinted her eyes, looking at the sea and the sky in the distance under her sunglasses. Just as she was about to start, she caught a glimpse of a pair of strangely colored green claws pulling at the edge of this wooden sunbathing platform in front of her.

And then.

A head of the same ghostly green color slowly emerged from the front.

Before Situ Jin could react, a cold voice rang out from the side, laced with unmistakable authority, “Scram.”

Shu Yao looked straight at this [Parasite] that had appeared from nowhere. Because the sea breeze on this resort island was just right, and her mood was pleasant, she was too lazy to get up and deal with it:

【If you don’t want to die, then get far away from here.】

Her light brown pupils were filled with obvious deterrence.

Three seconds later.

That head slowly descended below the wooden platform, and even the two claws that had been pulling at the edge before were silently retracted.

Situ Jin thus let out a very short laugh.

Then she turned to Shu Yao and said, “This is the only problem I’m worried about in developing this project. Although the overall environment is safe, the ecology in the sea has recovered too well now, and I don’t know how many of these [Parasites] are hidden—”

She rested her head on one hand, seeming a little troubled. “I originally wanted to transfer Xuan Zhu over to be in charge of the security for this project. After all, this environment is also suitable for her.”

She didn’t continue, but Shu Yao had already understood what she meant. She looked over with some surprise. “Does she look like she’s willing to leave you?”

Situ Jin sighed.

This was exactly the problem.

…

According to Situ Jin’s original plan.

She was really tired of the ins and outs of those family arranged marriages. She neither wanted to serve some idle and arrogant crown princes, nor did she want to find an equally career-minded heir, lest both sides face the problem of family business mergers.

Her original intention was to temporarily drag it out with her family until she could completely control the family’s business, and then decide on the matter of marriage.

Unfortunately, due to some accidental special circumstances, for example, a certain mermaid just happened to be invaded by the [Lighthouse], and in order to fight against the enveloping will, her atavistic bloodline became even stronger.

The more her body reduced its human characteristics and approached a siren, the more easily she was controlled by her instincts, for example, entering a reproductive period because she had fully matured.

But on this planet, there was no second mermaid.

Situ Jin couldn’t bear to see her in so much pain, so she could only choose to help her relieve it.

And so it went on, one mistake after another. By the time she had reacted, their fates were already tightly intertwined. She had helped Xuan Zhu through one difficulty after another, and Xuan Zhu had, on the night when the [Martyr] had launched a major attack, protected her with her life.

That mermaid was originally an introverted personality, and later she had set her heart on Situ Jin, and was stubborn and unwilling to change her mind.

If Situ Jin were to abandon her and make another choice—

The consequences would surely be very tragic.

Situ Jin had been busy with her business on the one hand, and on the a while ago, she had been busy with her old-fashioned parents accepting the fact that she had been saved several times now and had to repay her benefactor with her body, otherwise the benefactor would easily think too much.

Seeing Situ Jin press her head again, and rarely showing a hint of sorrow for being troubled by love, Shu Yao finished her watermelon juice and said to her, “Don’t sigh anymore. The [Parasite] problem on this group of islands is not that difficult to solve.”

Situ Jin heard from her words that she would help, and her heart was warmed for a moment, but she couldn’t help but press her temples. “I’m just worried that the process of solving these things will be too long, and some unexpected situation will occur.”

Because her family’s business was spread out over a large area, if Situ Jin wanted to formally inherit it and let her father retire, it would probably take at least five to eight years.

She was worried that she would be too busy to take care of Xuan Zhu, and she was also worried that her parents would always be constrained by old concepts and would be unwilling to accept her special girlfriend.

It was rare for Shu Yao to be her confidante.

This feeling was very strange.

After all, in the past, even when Miss Situ was in love, she had never been sad for any tree. She would cut it off when it was time to cut it off. The time when she was most angry in her emotions was when she had heard that Shu Yao had been cheated on by Lin Jingshu.

She was always sincere, passionate, like a little sun that would shine, giving the people around her full emotional feedback.

Anyone who got close to her would be happy.

Until one day, she would also start to worry if the light she released would be too strong and would burn a mermaid who wanted to get close, and she was also afraid that she would be too busy with things, and by the time she reacted, it had been a long time since she had gone to shine on that fish alone.

Shu Yao listened to her complaints seriously, for example, some of the projects at the shareholder meetings she attended, she didn’t understand at all, and in order not to become a suitable wife for those second-generation rich kids to marry, how she had stayed up late and tried to find ways to understand these project situations.

And for example.

The Situ couple were always worried about the species difference between her and Xuan Zhu, which would lead to some problems with different lifespans, and also the problem that the two of them could not have offspring. For this reason, Xuan Zhu had even had a very slight “false pregnancy” reaction a few days ago.

After all.

Given the current wealth of the Situ family, their family really did have a “throne” that needed to be inherited.

The waiter who had come over refilled the cup of watermelon juice in Shu Yao’s hand. Before she picked it up again, she said to her friend:

“Career is really too complicated. I don’t think I can really help with that.”

“Why don’t I help you solve the problem of having a child?”

Situ Jin: “?”

Her expression was subtle. “Yaoyao, are you saying it backwards?” Helping her solve the [Parasite] problem of this island travel project, isn’t that a help in career?

Shu Yao sold a pass. “Mmm, you wait for me to ask Lin Ran first.”

…

“What do you want to ask me?”

Just now, seeing that her girlfriend really wanted to be alone with Situ Jin and share secrets, Lin Ran had used the excuse that she was just going to see what kind of amusement projects were around.

She didn’t know if it was to make up for the water park that Shu Yao hadn’t been able to play at during her previous cruise trip, but Situ Jin had set up a small amusement park on one of the islands, which was colorful and vibrant.

Shu Yao had seen the scenery over there a long time ago. Now, seeing Lin Ran approach, she took her hand and shook it. “How was your tour?”

“It was okay.”

Lin Ran looked down at her.

The person lying on the deck chair had changed into a very beach-style swimsuit. The brilliant spaghetti straps went over her collarbones and extended to the back of her neck. Perhaps it was because she didn’t want to go into the water at this moment, but she was also wearing a black, thin knit cardigan.

At first glance, the hem of the long shirt could reach her knees, but in fact, not a single button of the outer garment was buttoned. In the center of her chest, the one-finger-wide slit of the swimsuit showed off her charm, and there was also a small bow design.

On the full curve, that bow did not have the effect of holding anything up, but rather made one have the impulse to roughly pull it off.

Lin Ran’s gaze paused for a moment, then she looked away. Hearing Situ Jin say that she was going to find Xuan Zhu and leave this place to the two of them, she simply squatted down next to Shu Yao’s deck chair.

“What did you want to say to me just now?”

Shu Yao turned her head to look at her, and suddenly raised her hand and took off the sunglasses on her head, wanting to know if it suited Lin Ran’s style today.

Her fingertips rested on the center of the sunglasses, and as she pushed them onto her girlfriend’s nose, she slowly said, “I was thinking about your [Reproduction] ability. Weren’t we not sure before if using this would make you like other octopuses?”

“Have you ever considered giving it to someone who needs it more?”

Lin Ran, who was wearing sunglasses and looked a little cool, curved her lips at her words and answered her, “For example, Xuan Zhu?”

Ever since she had regained her memories, Lin Ran had not really thought much about this mermaid, who had accidentally reverted to a purer siren bloodline, and what relationship she had with the city of Atlantis she had encountered back then.

Even if there was a one in a billion chance that Xuan Zhu’s atavistic bloodline was related to the friend she had first met, they were also two different people.

Bloodline atavism would only cause the instincts that were engraved in the genes to appear, and would strengthen the abilities in certain aspects, such as the control over water, and for example, sharper claws, a larger, more powerful, and more beautiful fishtail.

She didn’t want to look for traces of the past in anyone.

Because she only needed to cherish every moment of the present.

But this didn’t mean that she had completely forgotten the past. Now, Lin Ran would occasionally go back to the abyss to have a look, to prevent the [Lighthouse] from coming up with any new tricks, and also to see what this abyss, which was on top of the ruins, would eventually become.

Shu Yao would go back with her every time, just as when she went to the cemetery in the western suburbs, Lin Ran would also accompany her.

“I have no problem.”

Before Shu Yao could answer, Lin Ran said so again.

Fate seemed to have finally come full circle at this moment, making her vaguely realize that the massacre that had fallen on the mermaid race, which had started with her friend, would ultimately have to be compensated for by her at this time.

For her, it was a curse, a [Reproduction] shrouded in the gloom of death. For Xuan Zhu, who had by a strange twist of fate reverted to the siren bloodline, and for the Situ family, who were troubled by old concepts.

It was a new hope.