Feasibility of Mermaids Infiltrating Qilin

The man led the child to an old residential area. As they walked through rows of houses that seemed quite retro to him, the Zhang family members they encountered along the way showed no surprise at seeing the two of them return covered in blood. They simply glanced at them indifferently and then went on with their own business.

The Zhang family member left the child with the clan doctor, gave a brief explanation, and then went deep into the Zhang family residence to report the matter of the ancient city ruins to the clan chief.

When the tribal doctor saw the child's wounds, he routinely applied medicine and soon wrapped the child up like a small rice dumpling.

The child was lying in a small hut; the tribal doctor was nowhere to be found.

Once he was sure there was no one else around, Su Xingze revealed himself.

In the dimly lit room, there was only a sleeping child, and no one noticed that a merman with a long tail fin had appeared in the room.

The room was really small. Su Xingze was in his juvenile form, about the same size as the child on the bed, but unlike the child, he had a long tail.

The pure white fish tail is covered with a layer of warm and fine scales. Only upon close inspection will you discover that the white scales are not pure white. With just a little light, the pearly white scales will refract a variety of colorful hues.

Further down, the fish's tail trails layers of thin, gauze-like fins, as if it's wearing a gorgeous gauze skirt. The fish's tail sways gently, and the gauze ripples out soft, flowing waves.

The entire tail, including the caudal fin, is almost 1.5 meters long.

When Su Xingze reached adulthood, his tail reached an astonishing three meters in length. Of course, half of that length was due to his dreamy and flowing tail fin, and he wasn't actually that long.

Although the room where the child slept was small, it could still accommodate him, a merman who was nearly two meters long including his tail. However, Su Xingze felt that the cramped space was too oppressive, so he shrunk his body.

After shrinking his body, Su Xingze was less than 20 centimeters long, making him look exceptionally delicate and cute.

He didn't care about his unimpressive appearance at all, flew to the child's side, and bent down to examine the child's right hand.

The child's right hand was not as soft and delicate as a child's; instead, it was covered with many old scars, layer upon layer. Some were quite old, while others looked newly formed, with new scars covering old ones, shaping the hand into its current state.

Knife marks, burns, abrasions, scalds... the sources of these injuries are complex. From the marks on these hands, Su Xingze could glimpse the inhuman torment this child had endured in his short life.

Even though his emotions had been largely consumed by the anomaly, Su Xingze couldn't help but feel a pang of sadness when he saw these hands. It wasn't for any other reason than the lingering instinct from his past as a human.

However, this feeling came quickly and went quickly.

really.

Besides the numerous scars on his hands, the child's index and middle fingers were also longer than his other fingers, though not as noticeably as in adults.

After arriving at the Zhang family's territory with the child, Su Xingze noticed that the family members all had exceptionally long right index and middle fingers.

This seems to be some kind of mark of the Zhang family, but it's unclear whether it's a congenital deformity or something they deliberately developed.

This Zhang family is indeed very strange; Su Xingze has never seen a family like this before.

Judging from the buildings and the area occupied by the Zhang family estate, Su Xingze could tell that this was a very large family. The Zhang family estate, though called a family estate, was actually no smaller than a small town.

The Zhang family compound is surrounded by many residential houses, which guard the seven huge houses in the center.

He didn't know exactly how many people lived here, but he estimated there were at least a thousand. Moreover, the location of the Zhang family's house seemed to follow some kind of pattern, somewhat like the formations he had seen before.

It seems the Zhang family is hiding many secrets.

But this had nothing to do with him. Su Xingze only thought about it for a while before putting the Zhang family's strangeness out of his mind.

He would follow this child out simply because this child possessed the world's favor.

As an unregistered person severely rejected by the world's consciousness, if he wants to move freely in this world, he either needs to stay in that underground ancient city ruins until the world's consciousness restricts him less, or he needs to use the aura of the child, a person favored by this world, to conceal himself and gain the world's acceptance.

He didn't know where the system got the courage to kidnap him; apart from its own world, he bet no other world consciousness would welcome his arrival.

However, since he was already here, Su Xingze didn't want to stay in that ancient city forever.

The underground city was dark, cold, and damp. When given the chance to leave, Su Xingze decisively chose to leave with the child.

However, after leaving, Su Xingze discovered another problem.

Su Xingze is a forbidden-level anomaly; in some people's words, he is equivalent to an evil god with powerful corrupting abilities.

This group of Zhang family members possesses the bloodline of the Qilin, giving them considerable resistance to the abnormal energy he emits after he has concealed it. However, ordinary people are extremely susceptible to his corruption. Not only ordinary people, but even objects around him will undergo some kind of mutation after being around him for a long time.

The uncontrollable pollution is a taboo instinct that cannot be controlled. He can reduce the pollution to a minimum, but he can never completely eliminate it. This is why he voluntarily stays at the bottom of the Ghost Prison.

In that specially designed prison, at least he didn't have to worry about causing a terrible disaster.

He needs to find a way to deal with that instinctive pollution. With the pollution currently suppressed to a minimum and restricted by the world, he has more than a month to figure it out. Otherwise, the Zhang family's territory might become chaotic.

Su Xingze was thinking about how to solve the pollution problem when he suddenly looked up at the child on the bed.

The energy emanating from the child is a bit off.

This fluctuation...

Su Xingze tilted his head and thought for a while before he remembered what the fluctuation represented.

It flew closer and touched the child's cheek; it was indeed very hot.

After being bled out, losing too much blood, and then being taken into the underground passage beneath the ancient city, where he had to contend with a group of zombie monsters and adults with malicious intentions, the fact that the child has managed to hold on until now without developing a fever is a testament to the extraordinary physique brought about by his Qilin bloodline.

If it were an ordinary child, they would have been beyond saving after losing too much blood.

What should I do if I have a fever?

Having been away from ordinary people for so long, Su Xingze couldn't remember for a moment.

When half of his body was burning from the child's body heat, he finally remembered to call a doctor.

But here's the problem: how can a merman who's clearly not human possibly call in the tribe's doctor from outside?

Su Xingze grew a little bigger and pressed his cool, large tail against the child's side. Perhaps sensing the coolness, the child instinctively hugged his fish tail.

The child's body was very hot, and Su Xingze felt a warmth he hadn't experienced in a long time.

Got it!

Su Xingze pulled the tail away from the child's embrace. The cool, comforting tail was gone, and the sleeping child frowned slightly, a hint of grievance in his expression. Perhaps accustomed to loss, he showed no sign of dissatisfaction or attempt to hold on, only a hint of grievance.

"Poor little thing."

Su Xingze reached out and poked the child's not-so-obvious chubby cheek, a touch of coolness sliding down his fingertips onto the child.

An invisible coolness enveloped him, and the child's brow relaxed. At this moment, Su Xingze finally saw a bit of childlike innocence on his face.

Seeing that the child was doing well, Su Xingze transformed his tail into legs, spent some points from the system to buy a set of clothes matching the child's, and took off his mermaid gauze robe to put it on.

Su Xingze flew out of the house to find the clan doctor who had treated the child's wounds.

There was nothing he could do; he hadn't walked in years, and even if he had legs, he wouldn't know how.

But that's okay. Others won't see him flying; they'll only see him walking on his feet.