Feasibility of Mermaids Infiltrating Qilin

When Zhang Shenglin returned after observing Zhang Shengchun, he saw the little mermaid squatting by the chicken coop, her eyes sparkling as she stared at the plump chickens raised inside the fence.

His gaze was straightforward and easy to understand. The chickens, fearing for their lives at the hands of the mermaids, huddled together in a corner of the chicken coop, trembling with fear, afraid that the greedy mermaids would catch them and stew them into soup.

Seeing this, Zhang Shenglin looked thoughtfully at the chickens he was raising: "The chickens have grown up."

When Su Xingze saw him return, he quickly wiped the corner of his mouth.

As the chickens grew fatter and fatter, he did indeed drool over them, but knowing the boy's fondness for them, he could only look at them with longing.

Seeing the little mermaid's puzzled look, Zhang Shenglin quietly explained, "The chicken has grown up and is ready to be eaten."

Su Xingze was genuinely surprised. It wasn't that he hadn't considered taking the chickens before, but the child had previously been extremely wary of him, as if afraid he would harm them. How could this be...?

If there's any difference between last time and this time...

Su Xingze looked at the chickens that had grown up and become fat and strong, comparing them to the fluffy, round, cute little chicks from before.

"..." He seemed to understand something.

The child only liked the chick's fluffy and cute appearance; once it grew into a big chicken, he didn't like it at all.

Ugh! That's awful!

But that suited him perfectly.

Since that's the case, Su Xingze's hungry gaze fell on the rooster he had been coveting for a long time.

The rooster shuddered: "..." Something terrible has happened.

That evening, Su Xingze enjoyed a delicious chicken soup. The child's cooking skills were improving, and he used the limited ingredients to ensure that the rooster died a worthy death, not letting the rooster's sacrifice go to waste.

That evening, Su Xingze shrunk down and lay on the child's pillow to read—he disliked the child's original pillow for being too hard and worn out, so he used the child's points to buy a super soft memory foam pillow in the mall.

Zhang Shenglin brought in a bucket of hot water and poured it into the little mermaid's special bath tub.

He reminded the little mermaid several times that it was time to take a bath, but Su Xingze was engrossed in the world of the novel and each time he just gave a perfunctory reply that he knew.

Zhang Shenglin glanced at the remaining thickness of the book in the little mermaid's hand, calculated the time it would take for the little mermaid to finish reading it, and silently added another half of the hot water to the bathtub.

Su Xingze finally finished reading the book in his hand. He put the book away, stretched, and vaguely remembered that the child had asked him to take a bath. He looked up and sure enough, he saw his own little bathtub on the table.

He flew over and tested the water temperature. It was just right – not too cold, not too hot. He knew then that the child must have timed the water temperature carefully.

He landed by the window and looked out through the windowpane. He saw children taking a bath in the yard with buckets of water.

After several months of feeding, the originally thin child has grown taller and gained weight, and no longer looks so thin.

The child's life was always very rough. His so-called bath was just filling a wooden bucket with water, pouring it on his body, then applying a simple soap from the system store, rinsing it off with water after it sudsed. The whole process took a maximum of 10 minutes.

As he watched, Su Xingze was somewhat surprised to find that the child had actually developed abs, and his arms also had not exaggerated muscle lines. He looked down at his own flat, even slightly chubby, belly, snorted enviously, and then flew over the bathtub and did a fancy dive.

The Zhang family boys get a lot of exercise every day, so it's only natural that they have abs. He's still a child and his physical age is too young. When he grows up, he will also have abs, even eight-pack abs.

After taking a shower and changing into a clean set of cotton pajamas, Zhang Shenglin entered the room to find the little merman enjoying a bubble bath.

Long white hair hung down the edge of the bathtub, and half of her beautiful big tail was draped over the tub, slapping against it intermittently.

Zhang Shenglin stared at the large tail that swayed up and down for a while, and vaguely noticed that the little mermaid's tail was beating a rhythmic, unfamiliar beat.

Noticing the child's gaze, Su Xingze opened his eyes and raised his tail to invite the child.

"Are you staring at my tail so intently because you want to pet it?"

Unlike the special meanings that merfolk tails in fantasy romance novels have, Su Xingze's tail doesn't have any broken rules that only partners can touch it. His tail looks delicate and beautiful, but it is actually very powerful and is one of the important tools for merfolk to hunt.

What kind of sensitive tail setting is this? As the overlords of the deep sea, if they are so sensitive to even the slightest touch of their hunting tails, then merfolk might as well not hunt at all and just become someone else's pets.

In fact, Su Xingze had long noticed that the child's gaze always fell on his tail, but he pretended not to notice, though he was secretly quite pleased. His large tail was the most beautiful among his kind; no other member of the clan could compare.

Given that the child only looked at the objects each time without making any attempt to touch them, Su Xingze assumed that this time would be the same.

Unexpectedly, he felt a cautious force shortly after closing his eyes. He opened his eyes and saw the child sitting at the table, reaching out a finger to touch his tail with a rather cautious attitude.

Seeing that he did not resist, Zhang Shenglin stroked his tail with his fingertips as if stroking his fur.

Perhaps it was because the child was being too careful, but Su Xingze felt a tickling sensation where the child had touched him.

I don't feel unwell, it's just that something feels off.

Zhang Shenglin was very sensible; after curiously touching the mermaid's large tail, he withdrew his fingers.

He looked up at Su Xingze, as if suddenly realizing that the little mermaid was taking a bath. He shyly looked away, and Su Xingze happened to see the tips of his red ears.

With a chuckle, Su Xingze flew out of the bathtub, summoning a stream of water to wash away the bubbles on his body. The winter in Northeast China is very cold, and he felt a chill as soon as he stepped out of the bathtub.

He quickly took out his bath towel, wrapped himself up, and flew to the child's bed, crawling under the covers and becoming much bigger.

He himself has a bad sleeping posture, so he judges others by his own standards and thinks that children also have bad sleeping postures.

Fearing that if he shrunk down and slept in bed, he would deliberately become much larger when he slept.

Su Xingze remembered that the child had just finished bathing and was afraid that he would catch a cold, so he quickly told him to go to bed.

The child was about to climb into bed when he caught a glimpse of the disguise materials placed in the corner.

He used the materials he received to make a human skin mask on the very first day. This mask, which had never even been opened, belonged to the little merman.

He looked at the disguise materials, pursed his lips, and asked in confusion, "You didn't make a mask."

Su Xingze rolled over, turned around and followed his gaze to the disguise materials in the corner, and said, "Oh, actually I drew a blank lot."

"It seems that quite a few people protested, saying that it was too difficult to disguise myself as me, so the teacher gave me a blank sign."

Zhang Shenglin looked down at his snow-white long hair, green eyes, and flawless white skin, and roughly understood why the teacher had given him a blank sheet of paper.

The child had no more questions, silently climbed into bed, and obediently lay down next to the little mermaid.

In the middle of the night, Zhang Shenglin was woken up by the little mermaid's big tail. He was still in the same position as before he went to sleep, but the little mermaid had most of its body lying across his chest.

Touching the large tail draped over his arm, Zhang Shenglin adjusted the restless little mermaid's sleeping position and closed his eyes to sleep again.