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

Chapter 349 The Bride of the Sea God (8)

Yan Zhen was slightly taken aback.

Although I already knew that in the eyes of most humans, mermaids were no different from cats, dogs, or even fish in the market.

But hearing these words from Si Lan still left her with mixed feelings.

"No need," Yan Zhen refused. "It has a bit of a temper, but it's not very aggressive. I'll just avoid provoking it in the future."

Annoying Nolan and letting it bite you is part of training it to desensitize.

If Si Lan intervenes and Nolan gets beaten up, not only will all of my efforts over the past ten days be wasted, but Nolan will probably also hold a grudge against me.

"You've grown fond of it?" Si Lan laughed. "It's just a pet that makes its owner happy. If it doesn't behave, it gets a beating. If it still doesn't behave after being beaten, you get a new one. If you spoil it, it'll eventually climb all over you and act wildly."

"Sis, you've already given it to me, so don't worry about how I get along with it. As long as I'm happy." Yan Zhen didn't want to continue the topic. On this matter, both she and Si Xia disagreed with Si Lan.

Si Lan has an outgoing and flamboyant personality, and is exceptionally bold.

Compared to the refined and bookish Si Xia, Si Lan, who has loved surfing and skydiving since childhood and is skilled in various extreme sports, is the other extreme.

She was athletically gifted. When she was eighteen, she went out to sea with the Si family's ocean-going fishing boat. In the waters where mermaids were known to appear, she personally killed a Class B mermaid and gouged out its eyes to make a specimen as a coming-of-age gift for herself.

Seeing Yan Zhen's insistence, Si Lan had no choice but to give up: "Fine, as long as you know what you're doing. But mermaids aren't cats or dogs. They're taller and stronger than you. Since it's started hurting people, its safety isn't high enough. I'm not comfortable with it continuing to keep it by your side."

Yan Zhen paused in surprise.

Si Lan couldn't help but laugh when she saw her expression: "Don't worry, I don't plan to take it with me, but for safety reasons, I'll have to put an electronic collar on it."

"An electronic collar?"

“Yes, you need to keep the collar controller on your body at all times. If it makes an attack, press the controller immediately.” Si Lan said, taking out her phone to contact the research institute to apply for an electronic collar.

But then, as if remembering something, she put down her phone and said, "Never mind, applying for an electronic collar is too complicated and time-consuming. I have a few spare small electric collars at home. You can come back with me to get them later."

Si Lan made the decision for herself in just a few words, and Yan Zhen couldn't refute her, lest she take Nolan away directly for safety reasons.

After bringing the electronic collar back, she simply wouldn't let Nolan put it on.

After dinner, Si Lan drove Yan Zhen back to her residence to retrieve the collar.

Unlike Yan Zhen's detached villa, Si Lan lives in a luxurious penthouse on the twelfth floor, with an area of ​​over a thousand square meters.

Yan Zhen followed Si Lan into the single-level apartment. The interior design was dominated by black, white, and gray cool colors, with many abstract decorations, such as mermaid sculptures and marine life specimens in glass containers.

"Sit wherever you like." Si Lan tossed her bag onto the sofa, turned to get a drink from the refrigerator, and asked, "What would you like to drink?"

Yan Zhen was looking around at the room when he casually replied, "Juice."

The living room has a display cabinet that occupies an entire wall, divided into more than 300 compartments by wooden boards, each containing a marine life specimen preserved in formalin.

Some were intact, while others were dissected and processed organs. Yan Zhen walked around looking at them, and finally his gaze fell on a pair of eyeballs in the corner.

Those were purple mermaid eyes, and the way they looked after being dug out and soaked in a glass bottle wasn't exactly pretty; in fact, they were rather crudely made.

Even so, looking at these eyes, one can imagine how beautiful they must have been when their owner was still alive.

Yan Zhen picked up the glass bottle. There was a label on the bottom of the cap. Looking at the date, it was the same B-grade mermaid that Si Lan had personally killed when she was eighteen.

Yan Zhen was lost in thought when a gaze fell upon her from behind, so intense it could not be ignored.

She immediately turned around and was caught off guard by a pair of purple eyes more than ten meters away.

Yan Zhen was taken aback.

When she saw what it was, she looked surprised.

In one corner of the living room stood a giant cylindrical fish tank, in which floated a male mermaid with black hair, purple eyes, and purple scales.

This was clearly an adult mermaid, with strikingly handsome features that bordered on the supernatural. Its upper body was muscular, and it had scars on its skin. It wore an electronic collar around its neck and was quietly floating in the fish tank, looking down at Yan Zhen with a cold and hostile expression.

Si Lan also keeps a mermaid at home!

"Is it pretty?" Si Lan's voice came from behind.

Yan Zhen quickly turned around.

Si Lan handed her a glass of juice, while holding a bottle of soda water in her own hand.

She tilted her head back and took a sip of water, then leaned lazily against the display case behind her. She raised her chin, gesturing for Yan Zhen to look at the mermaid: "A-grade mermaid, caught at the end of last year."

Yan Zhen asked, "Isn't it said that Grade A mermaids are fierce and irritable and not suitable for keeping as pets? Aren't you afraid it will hurt you if you keep it at home?"

Class A and Class B are a dividing line among mermaids. Although mermaids of both classes can differentiate into two legs and become human, Class A mermaids are not only intelligent, but they also have the ability to learn.

Mermaids of this level are extremely irritable and deadly. Ocean-going fleets must be on high alert whenever they spot an A-level mermaid, and only by deploying the most advanced capture equipment can they catch them.

Keeping such a terrifying creature at home is tantamount to having a time bomb next to you.

No one knows when it will escape the fish tank and kill its sleeping owner.

“I’m confident I can control it,” Si Lan said confidently. She walked to the fish tank and tapped the side of the tank. “The fish tank is made of aerospace materials and can’t be broken even by a cannonball. And the electronic collar around its neck, if turned on to the maximum, the current can cook it instantly.”

As she approached, the mermaid in the fish tank gave her a cold glance, then turned away with a look of disgust, refusing to look at her again.

The mermaid's aversion to Si Lan was written all over her face; she was clearly not going to listen to her or offer emotional support like a kitten or puppy.

What is the significance of Si Lan raising it?

Yan Zhen asked, "If you need to go to so much trouble to be on guard all the time, why bother keeping it at all?"

"Isn't it exciting? Don't you think taming such a ferocious creature is a very rewarding thing?" Si Lan smiled meaningfully. "Besides, it has other uses... It's a lot of fun, do you want to try it?"

Yan Zhen instinctively felt that this "fun" was beyond her comprehension, but out of a desire to understand more about the way humans and mermaids interacted, she asked curiously, "How exactly is it fun?"

Si Lan put down the soda water, took a syringe from the cabinet next to her, and injected the red liquid inside into the fish tank.

Upon seeing this, the mermaid's expression changed slightly, her gaze fixed on Si Lan, hatred surging in her eyes.

Within three minutes, the mermaid became visibly agitated, thrashing about in the tank, flicking its tail fin.

Five minutes later, it seemed to be in great discomfort, and its whole body began to tremble and convulse.

Ten minutes later, its eyes gradually became glazed over, and it kept rubbing its body against the tank wall.

Fifteen minutes later, Yan Zhen watched as it shed its tail and the webbed toes, transforming into a tall, naked adult male in the fish tank.