Feasibility of Mermaids Infiltrating Qilin

With his wrist tightly wrapped around the child's, Su Xingze assumed the child was scared. He never expected that the child, who usually seemed like a little adult, would be afraid of the dark.

The irritation in his heart dissipated considerably, and Su Xingze secretly chuckled to himself.

He began to have a wicked thought: if he freed his hands and left the child alone to face the long, dark tomb passage, would the child be so scared that he would cry?

Wanting to see what a child would look like when they cried, Su Xingze suddenly felt a little eager to try.

Should we bring out a few ghosts to scare the kids? Or maybe they should suddenly disappear and see if the kids panic?

However, in the end, he did not put his idea into practice. Instead, he held the child's hand back and pressed his warm palm against the child's.

Oh well, what can I do? It's my own little Qilin that I raised.

Seemingly sensing that he was thinking of some bad idea, Zhang Shenglin glanced at the little mermaid behind him, his eyes showing a hint of helplessness.

After walking for another two minutes, the winding, downward-facing tomb passage finally became flat. The passage was gloomy and cold, giving one the feeling that something terrifying was lurking within; no special effects were needed to film a horror movie.

The tomb passage was pitch black, making it difficult for even two people to walk side by side. The passage was not straight, and there was not even just one passage, making it impossible to see the end of the passage.

They continued forward, occasionally passing one or two open tomb doors along the tomb passage, but most of them had already been entered by people.

The two continued forward and finally saw two tomb doors that were very close together. Su Xingze peeked inside and found that neither tomb was occupied.

"This is it."

Zhang Shenglin entered two very close tomb chambers and walked around. These were really very small tomb chambers, less than ten square meters in size.

The tomb chamber was very simple, after all, it was a tomb built by the Zhang family to train the next generation of the clan. Apart from a coffin in the center, there was only a chamber pot placed in the corner, which was probably used to solve physiological needs.

Apart from that, there was nothing else to be seen in this tomb.

From a young age, the Zhang family members undergo dieting training. Learning to maintain sufficient physical strength with very little food and controlling bowel movements are compulsory courses for the Zhang family. They carry at most enough dry food and water to last for about ten days, but they have to stay in the tomb for a month.

Zhang Shenglin looked at the little merman with a worried expression. He himself could stay in such an environment for a month without any problem, but the little merman seemed to hate being alone in a dark and cramped space.

He was also very clean, so the tomb was difficult to clean regularly. It was covered in dust, tangled with cobwebs, littered with dead spiders, and filled with a foul stench of decay.

"What are you all still doing here?" The school teacher walked over and said coldly.

In the darkness, he glanced at the two men, recognized them, and then looked at the two closely spaced tomb chambers on either side of the tomb passage, urging them to hurry up and go inside.

"You've made your choice? Then hurry up and go in, what are you dawdling for?"

He wanted to see the two of them go in with his own eyes. Under the teacher's supervision, Zhang Shenglin watched the little mermaid disappear into the tomb chamber opposite.

The teacher pressed the mechanism, the tomb door closed, and Zhang Shenglin stared at the little mermaid in the tomb. The next second, the teacher's tall body blocked his view.

"Worried about him?" The teacher looked down at the former Holy Infant, no longer hiding his disgust in the darkness, and sneered, "If he can't even get past this hurdle, it's better to give up on such a piece of trash sooner rather than later. With his looks, he might be quite popular there."

Those who abandon their status as members of the Zhang family are even lower than those from the maternal family. Without a master to rely on, they are not even allowed to leave the Zhang family. Their only duty is to become tools for reproduction.

Zhang Shenglin stood in the tomb chamber, his indifferent eyes suddenly darkening, turning icy cold. But under his teacher's venomous gaze, he suppressed the coldness in his eyes, turned around, and silently walked into the tomb chamber.

The teacher raised his hand and pressed the switch on the wall. As the tomb door slowly closed, his sarcastic voice, tinged with malice, reached Zhang Shenglin's ears.

"You still have time to worry about others? I hope you'll still be alive when I come to pick you up a month from now, you disgusting fake."

The thick tomb door couldn't block Su Xingze's senses; he heard all of his teacher's words and understood the hidden meaning behind them.

The Zhang family is a large and ruthless clan; only those of value can survive in this family.

Su Xingze would sneak around the Zhang family whenever he had free time. He had a natural advantage: once he regained his true form, no one in the Zhang family could detect his presence except for the little Qilin who had his permission.

Therefore, Su Xingze was not entirely unaware of how dark the Zhang family's internal affairs were.

The Zhang family is large and has a vast system. The training set up by the clan school is arduous and dangerous. After the Zhang family's boys turn 15, they are subjected to a brutal period of being released into the wild. During each release, a considerable number of boys lose their lives as a result, and some children give up training to avoid the danger.

If these children who give up training don't have any special talent or a 'master' willing to take care of them, the clan won't waste resources on nurturing them. The Zhang family doesn't need useless people.

But the tribe will not abandon them, because they still have one last use: as tools for reproduction.

Su Xingze and Zhang Shenglin once passed by an inconspicuous, secluded courtyard in the Zhang family's territory. The courtyard had about three sections. As they passed by, Su Xingze, with his strange instincts, sensed the pain, hatred, and resentment that enveloped the courtyard.

He asked the child what place it was, and the child just told him expressionlessly that there was nothing there, then pulled him away and never took him there again.

The child was certain, but the eerie creature was extremely sensitive to such negative emotions. There were still spiritual waves in the courtyard that belonged to a person but had been distorted by resentment. Su Xingze did not believe that there was no one there.

So Su Xingze sneaked into the courtyard while the child was away, and there he witnessed one of the darker aspects of the Zhang family.

Those living in that courtyard were all members of the Zhang family who were considered worthless.

They had no relatives willing to take them in or support them, and they had no skills that were useful to the Zhang family. In the eyes of the Zhang family, they were useless, only good for reproduction and venting their frustrations.

However, there were no women inside, because women were considered precious, and they felt that these worthless people were not qualified to reproduce the Zhang family's next generation. Therefore, those who lived there either became guinea pigs for various experiments or tools for certain people's venting; they had to serve a purpose.

In the early stages of training, the Zhang family members would artificially erase most of their emotions. However, emotional detachment does not mean the absence of desires; otherwise, this family would have disappeared into the annals of history long ago.

One can imagine what will happen to the people in that courtyard.

Su Xingze wasn't angry at the clan school teacher's words, even though it was a vicious curse for someone who was already in poor health and basically just coasting through his time at the clan school.

He knew the school teacher's malicious speculation wouldn't come true, but he was still concerned about the last thing he said to the child.

A fake? Whose fake is the child? What does this have to do with the years the child received attention?

The clan school teacher had already left, and Su Xingze looked around the tomb chamber.

Darkness, silence, oppression, suffocation...

This is a place that seems isolated from the world, easily giving people a sense of loneliness as if they are the only ones left in the world. If you stay in this environment for a long time, without extraordinary willpower and psychological adjustment ability, you will either go crazy or become abnormal.

No wonder so many members of the Zhang family are perverted.

Su Xingze felt he had found the reason.

The thought that a quiet and well-behaved child might turn into the cold-blooded, ruthless, cruel, and twisted kind of person like the Zhang family if they stayed here too long made Su Xingze restless.