Not only Qiu Fang, but Ruan Mingchu was also surprised.
After throwing the person, Mu Yu clapped his hands and excitedly ran to Ruan Mingchu to boast, "He made you unhappy."
Keep anything that makes you unhappy away from you; Pisces will protect your happiness!
Ruan Mingchu, restrained yet excited, pressed her lips to Mu Yu's. "It's so good to have you."
Being with Mu Yu, whether it's the shy Mu Yu in normal times or the little braised fish now, always makes Ruan Mingchu feel cherished.
I am grateful to fate for bringing him to the Shuangjiu Galaxy where he met Mu Yu.
If Qingyao knew what Ruan Mingchu was thinking, he would definitely boast smugly that he was the destiny Ruan Mingchu should be grateful for.
If it weren't for the arrangements he made on Ruan Mingchu, Ruan Mingchu would have been blown up long ago, let alone being taken to the Shuangjiu Star System and meeting Mu Yu.
Unfortunately, Qingyao will never know Ruan Mingchu's thoughts, nor will she ramble on about what she has actually done.
Qiu Fang, feeling utterly humiliated after being thrown out the door, covered his face and went to find Qing Yao. They had agreed that Ruan Mingchu would agree as soon as he arrived.
Watching Qiu Fang leave, Ruan Mingchu asked Mu Yu, "Are you going on a trip to the beach?"
Mu Yu clapped his hands and said happily, "Let's go on a trip!"
Rabbit Aotian wished he could kick this brainless little brat away. What kind of tourism is this? He's clearly here to work.
Rabbit Aotian, who was about to jump up and down, was spotted in time and his intentions were nipped in the bud.
There's not much to pack, but the situation at sea is dire, and supplies may not be replenished promptly. It's best to bring enough food and other necessities.
I didn't plan to bring much, but when I finished packing, I found that there were three large packages, each as big as a folded Mu Yu.
They were all packaged by Mu Yu.
Ruan Mingchu opened a package and looked inside. It contained all sorts of snacks, mostly desserts.
Great, this is so Mu Yu, another soul who loves snacks and desserts beneath his cool and aloof style.
Ruan Mingchu silently packed the package, adding some compressed biscuits and freeze-dried fish and other filling foods. It was a pity there was no nutrient solution here, otherwise he would have definitely brought several boxes.
Anyway, there's enough space inside the aircraft to fit it.
After boarding the aircraft and flying south for dozens of kilometers, Ruan Mingchu, Mu Yu, and Tu Aotian realized, after being reminded by Men Hao, that they had forgotten a mermaid.
Menhao yawned, opened his sleepy eyes, and looked around: "Huh? Mengshuo isn't here anymore?"
Two people and a rabbit: ...
I've forgotten about him.
Ruan Mingchu cleared his throat and said, "Let's hold a vote. Those who want to go back to pick him up, please raise your hands. Those who don't want to go, please raise your hands."
He was the first to raise his hand. He still couldn't figure out Meng Shuo's thought process; there was no point in having him on the journey through the Difficult Sea, so it was better to leave him out.
Mu Yu followed Ruan Mingchu's choice, and Tu Aotian also leisurely raised his paw. Men Hao also raised his paw when he saw this.
“Very well, no one is accepting the vote, then we will continue south.”
Meng Shuo, who was still in the Holy City, would go to the main gate of the temple every day, worried that if Ruan Mingchu met with misfortune, he would also die.
This behavior caused extreme dissatisfaction among a certain merman, and Meng Shuo was unable to get out of bed comfortably for several days, having to support her back.
They had no idea that they had been "abandoned".
When Qiu Fang brought Qing Yao to Ruan Mingchu's bedroom, it was already empty.
Qingyao shook his head smugly: "See, I told you he would definitely go."
Qiu Fang did not want to agree with him.
“Ah,” Qingyao slapped his forehead, “Qingnuo is already useless, and the temple can’t be leaderless for long. You tell those idle holy sons and daughters to go to the Sea of Difficulty. After they come back, they will be evaluated, and whoever performs well will be chosen as the next high priest.”
Qiu Fang sighed in anguish. This sounded so unreliable. While Qing Yao was asleep, he longed for him to wake up every day; now that he was awake, he felt it would have been better if he hadn't woken up at all.
He informed all twenty of the saints, and upon receiving the message, they immediately began preparations and set off for the Sea of Difficulty.
Who wouldn't want the position of high priest?
They have supreme power, the best treatment, and hardly have to do any work.
The Nanhai Sea is located in the southwest corner of the Mermaid Continent. It is a semi-circular sea area that is recessed into the interior of the continent.
The surrounding area was once home to several distinctive tourist towns with thriving tourism industries. Twenty-eight years ago, black rain fell into the Nanhai Sea, causing marine pollution and the disappearance of the tourism industry. Those who had settled there either died or moved away. In addition, Qingnuo intentionally maintained a desolate and uninhabited state, making it easy for the black monsters to take over the area.
After spending five or six days on the aircraft, Ruan Mingchu and Mu Yu arrived at Ping An Town, the closest town to the Nan Hai area, in the evening.
Although it's said to be the closest, it's actually still over a hundred kilometers away from Nanhai; it's just that there's no one else around after that point.
Ping'an Town is located along the river, which flows to another sea area. It is a port town leading to the sea, and there are quite a few ships coming and going.
They had all heard about what happened in Nanhai, and several conversations about it could be heard at the dinner table. The people Qingnuo sent had barely managed to contain the black monsters in Nanhai, and not a single one had broken through the blockade.
So nobody here took it to heart. They considered themselves experienced young people, and their minds were quite stable. Not to mention that rumors could be exaggerated many times over.
"Even if the sky falls, there are tall people to hold it up."
Ruan, a tall man from the early Ming Dynasty: ...
His height of over 1.9 meters is indeed not short.
Ruan Mingchu never expected that the first thing he would hear when he stepped into Ham Tavern was this. These fish are too big for their brutes. Even if they went as a group to see for themselves, they wouldn't be this ignorant.
If the Black Monster breaks through the blockade, probably none of those present will survive.
Ham's Tavern is the only tavern in Ping'an Town, a kind of monopoly. The waiter sitting at the door was as arrogant as a fool. When he saw Ruan Mingchu and his companion come in, he simply threw a menu at them and said, "Go tell the kitchen what you want to eat."
When they went out, Ruan Mingchu and Mu Yu disguised themselves as ordinary people, and wore ordinary clothes. They would not be noticed by anyone in a crowd. People would think that they were not worth anything, and the waiters would not bother to serve them.
Tu Aotian was about to explode at this attitude, but Mu Yu quickly pulled him into his arms. They were in an unfamiliar place, and Chu Chu had told them to be careful.
Ruan Mingchu picked up the menu, glanced at it, and nodded to the waiter.
This submissive and tolerant attitude only emboldened the waiter.
Turning around, a chubby uncle covered in jewels appeared, protected by a group of people wearing black hooded cloaks. The waiter's fawning manner made him seem like he wanted to lick the soles of the waiter's shoes.
The chubby uncle coldly tossed him a few silver fish coins, while the waiter smiled more broadly than a flower.
Tu Aotian, who had been staring at him, said disdainfully, "Money-grubbing! You have no manners whatsoever as a waiter!"
Ruan Mingchu rubbed his rabbit ears: "If everyone's doing monopolistic things, what need is there for basic manners?" That's why the Anti-Monopoly Law was created.
What annoyed Rabbit Aotian the most was that despite being dressed so richly, the blind waiter couldn't tell!
Tu Aotian fiddled with the big gold chain around his neck, deciding to wear a few more in the future to blind those kinds of people with its dazzling light.
The tavern's food was overpriced and cheap, nowhere near as good as what Ruan Mingchu had packed from the temple, so he casually ordered a signature dish, which earned him a disdainful snort from the chef.
The tall, burly man couldn't afford to order even two dishes.
Ruan Mingchu: ...
Before leaving, he took a look around Qingnuo's private vault; he was actually still barely wealthy.
After waiting for quite a while without receiving their ordered dishes, Tu Aotian urged Ruan Mingchu to go and ask. When Ruan Mingchu arrived at the window, she found that the dishes had already been prepared. However, guests of their caliber had to pick up their own food, and no one would remind them that the dishes were ready.
If it weren't the only one, Ruan Mingchu thought this run-down shop wouldn't last three days before it went out of business.
When the dishes were served, the two people and the two rabbits started eating at the same time, and then spat the food out at the same time.
Ruan Minhchu was even more certain that without a monopoly, the company would go bankrupt!
Fortunately, Ruan Mingchu and Mu Yu came to the tavern not for a meal, but to hear news about Nan Hai.
After half an hour, all I heard was the same old stuff, the same old rumors about the South China Sea. They said that even if there were problems, it wasn't their place to worry about them, and they should just relax and go fishing.
The service was poor and the food was unpalatable, so Ruan Mingchu and Mu Yu got up to leave.
Suddenly another group of people came in, and Ruan Mingchu pressed Mu Yu back into his seat.
Mu Yu looked at him in confusion, and Ruan Mingchu mouthed two words: Qingnuo.
What is Qingnuo? Mu Yu didn't understand, but it didn't matter. Since he was going to stay here, he would stay.
If you can only sit in one place and can't do anything else, and there's a plate of food in front of you, you'll most likely pick up the food and eat it.
If it tastes bad, just throw it up.
Mu Yu idly put some food in his mouth and then spat it out, just as the chef who cooked the food saw it. Feeling that his hard work had been insulted, the chef glared at Mu Yu angrily and prepared to come and cause trouble when he had a chance.
Ruan Mingchu stayed because Qing Nuo was one of the four new people who came in wearing black hooded cloaks.
After Qingnuo and the other three entered, they had a clear objective and headed straight for the table where the chubby uncle had come in earlier.
Neither side exchanged a single word. After exchanging their items, the chubby uncle and his group quickly left, while Qingnuo and her three friends ordered food and ate.
Ruan Mingchu thought for three seconds and asked Mu Yu, "Can you stay here and wait for me to come back?"
Mu Yu nodded reluctantly: "Okay."
"Good boy," Ruan Mingchu said, patting his head and soothing his fur with practiced ease. "I'll be back soon."
Mu Yu rubbed against Ruan Mingchu's palm and hummed in agreement.
Withdrawing his itchy hand, Ruan Mingchu stood up and caught up with the fat uncle and his group in a few steps.
The group of mermaids were all pretty weak, and Ruan Mingchu took them out one by one, without noticing any of the ones in front, until only the last fat uncle was left.
The chubby uncle turned around and saw Ruan Mingchu, and was so frightened that he knelt down, "Don't, don't kill me, I'll give you all the money."
Ruan Mingchu frowned and dragged him into the alley as well.
Question: "What did you give those men in black just now?"
Answer: "Just a few keys."
"I'm just a messenger, I don't know anything, please don't kill me."
Ruan Mingchu felt a strange feeling rising from the bottom of his heart. Why was the errand boy making such a big fuss?
"Who are the people following you?"
The chubby man said tremblingly, "N-no, I don't know. They ignored me when I tried to talk to them. It was...it was that sir who told me to put in a good show for him."
Just to save face? That's quite interesting.
With a flick of his mental power, Ruan Mingchu knocked the man unconscious. Then, he lifted his cloak to look at the other mermaids he had knocked unconscious.
They can all be described as useless mermaids, with weak limbs and difficulty breathing, either constantly using drugs or being bled out.