BXBX NOVEL Chapter 113 - 110: Mermaid Girl_l
After obtaining the Tai Chu Divine Body as a foundation, Yang Chen was overjoyed and walked out of the valley.
Bear Elder One and Bear Elder Two were honest and obedient, following Yang Chen’s orders, staying quietly in front of the valley, not moving at all.
This made Yang Chen feel relieved and nodded.
“Eldest Brother, have you come out?” Bear Elder One shouted.
“Shh.” Yang Chen raised his finger: “Your shouting like that, do you want others to know there’s a bear here?”
“Ah, alright, I’ll keep my voice down.” Bear Elder One scratched his head.
Yang Chen crossed his arms: “Actually, the only problem with you two following me is your size. Can you change your size to be smaller or something?”
Otherwise, these two giant bears following him would cause significant trouble once they left Monster Beast Mountain.
“Smaller?” Bear Elder One and Bear Elder Two looked at each other.
Immediately, Bear Elder One shrank his body first.
“Eldest Brother, is this small enough?” Bear Elder One asked.
Now he was only slightly bigger than a normal person.
This was already not big for Bear Elder One, but for Yang Chen, it was far from being stealthy and hidden.
“No, it’s still too big,” Yang Chen said.
“What about this?” Black Bear Elder Two shrank his size to be as tall as Yang Chen.
“Can’t it be any smaller?” asked Yang Chen awkwvardly.
Bear Elder One said apologetically: “But Eldest Brother, we can only shrink to this extent. This transformation technique has limitations; it doesn’t work if it’s too big or too small. We’re not proficient in controlling it yet, so we can only shrink to this size and no smaller.” This left Yang Chen with a wry smile: “That’s troublesome then.”
“We can help you with this problem.”
Just as Yang Chen was getting a headache, suddenly, a beautiful voice came from the nearby river.
Immediately after, Yang Chen looked towards the sound and saw heads popping out of the river.
Just looking at their heads, they all looked like beautiful young girls. But when he saw the scales on their shoulders, it was not hard to identify their race.
“Fishpeople Tribe?” Yang Chen was slightly surprised.
He had just encountered this Fishpeople Tribe a few days ago. Unfortunately, the Fishpeople Tribe was very cautious and dove into the water as soon as they saw him. This left Yang Chen surprised and feeling helpless since he couldn’t do anything to the Fishpeople Tribe.
But who would have thought that the Fishpeople Tribe would actively show up.
“Eldest Brother, it’s the Fishpeople Tribe. They’re very clever, but it’s useless.
That Golden Elephant Fruit, hehe, we stole it from them,” said Bear Elder One.
The mermaid girls who appeared all started to chatter: “Big silly bear, is that stealing? Is that stealing? That’s robbery! If it weren’t for your brute force going into the water and stealing our Golden Elephant Fruit, you wouldn’t have been able to steal it considering how cleverly we hid it.”
Yang Chen rolled his eyes and said, “Now the Golden Elephant Fruit is in my hands. Does your Fishpeople Tribe want it back?”
He finally understood the situation.
As it turned out, the mechanism for the Golden Elephant Fruit stone platform was set up by these mermaid girls. He had wondered how the black bears could have such abilities.
“It’s not about the Golden Elephant Fruit!” The mermaid girls blinked their big eyes at Yang Chen, “Human, we want to follow you, and we can help you deal with these two big silly bears’ problem.”
“Follow me?” Yang Chen was stunned.
He wasn’t afraid of those two silly bears with their low intelligence, and he knew everything about them.
But this Fishpeople Tribe wasn’t as simple as the two Black Mountain Black Bears.
Thinking of this, he slowly said, “Give me a reason.”
The mermaid girls looked at each other: “We Fishpeople Tribe have really had enough of our current days, staying in one place all the time, living in fear. We don’t dare to appear in the sight of humans, nor in the sight of other demonic beasts. Once we’re discovered, we’ll be killed. To us, this river is like a cage!”
“You’re so afraid of humans, but you dare to take the initiative to follow me?” Yang Chen asked in return.
The Fishpeople Tribe was indeed persecuted by humans, so it’s natural for them to be afraid of humans.
He didn’t hold any ill-will towards the Fishpeople Tribe, but he was curious about their choice.
The prettiest mermaid girl cautiously said, “Actually, we didn’t originally think of following you, but we’ve seen the days you’ve spent with these two big silly bears. We think you’re different from other humans. You don’t have as much malice towards us demonic beasts. If we can leave here without fear by following you, our tribe is willing to serve you, but you have to protect our safety!”
“Protect your safety? I don’t know how many people there are in your Fishpeople Tribe, but there are already more than a dozen of you just showing your heads. So many fishpeople, if I openly take you out of Beast Mountain, let alone you, I won’t be able to protect myself.” Yang Chen said with a bitter smile, “How do you expect me to protect you?”
He didn’t mean not to take in these mermaid girls, but…he’s helpless.
Hearing Yang Chen’s words, the mermaid girls showed joy on their faces. Yang Chen speaking like this at least indicated he was trustworthy.
If Yang Chen didn’t say this and directly agreed to their request unreasonably, then it would indicate that he was very fishy.
“You don’t have to worry about that; we have our ways.” The leading mermaid girl blinked her beautiful eyes: “Have you seen this river? In fact, there are no rivers in the inner circle of Monster Beast Mountain. This river is a treasure handed down from our ancestors. It’s called the Eight Extremities Flowing
River, and it’s a Mustard Seed Space!”
“Mustard Seed Space?” Yang Chen was shocked.
Mermaid girl giggled and said, “Yes, we can live inside this space, but the appearance of this space can change size at will. If you’re willing, you can even change this space into a jade pendant and hang it on your waist. No one will find out.”
“When you said you’d help me with Bear Elder One and Bear Elder Two’s problem, do you mean letting them both enter this Mustard Seed Space?” Yang Chen asked.
“Hmph, if it wasn’t for your sake, we wouldn’t have even let these two silly bears in.” The mermaid girl replied unhappily, clearly still holding a grudge about Bear Elder One and Bear Elder Two stealing their treasure. This made Yang Chen rub his chin, gradually lost in thought.
Seeing that Yang Chen was still indecisive, those mermaid girls became anxious: “What’s the matter? Are you going to agree or not? We, the Fishpeople Tribe, have lots of skills. If you agree to protect us and take us to see the outside world, we’ll never treat you badly.”
Honestly speaking, Yang Chen was very curious about the Fishpeople Tribe.
If the Fishpeople Tribe agreed to follow him, he would only be pleased.
But, since this Fishpeople Tribe was naturally cautious and smart, and not as easy to control as the two Black Mountain Black Bears, he naturally wouldn’t be too careless.
Now, hearing the mermaid girl’s words, Yang Chen smacked his lips and said: “Tell me then, what can you do?”