The Fallen Merman

s received by Bai Chunian could almost fill a boat.
A group of crabs and sea turtles were huffing and panting carrying the boxes ashore.

Time passed quickly and they had stayed underwater for more than six hours.
Rimbaud thought that Randi must be hungry so he pushed him to swim to the sea.
At the same time, he carried two oversized scallops under his arms and brought Bai Chunian to the surface.

The ship that Bai Chunian came on stopped at a place around 10 meters away from the island.
The people on deck were still muddle-headed.
There would always be merfolks singing on merfolk island.
Once people hear their singing voice, they would not be in their conscious mind.
However, the singing of only one merman didn’t have this kind of ability.

Bai Chunian flipped into the cabin, then brought down the stuff he had prepared: 20 cases of canned cooked meat, seasoning, various styles of jackets, trunks of stainless steel woks, lighters, power cords, light bulbs, a portable stove, a small gas canister, and an assault shotgun rifle and bullets. 

The merfolks gathered together to look at the strange things they had never seen.
They cautiously stretched out their long webbed hands to touch them and quickly retracted them.

“This is how it works.” Bai Chunian sat on the ground, attached the small gas canister to the portable stove, unscrewed it, and used a lighter to ignite it.

The moment the flames were ignited, the merfolks screamed in panic and retreated.

Rimbaud crawled on the ground, raised his reddened tail to scold them for making a fuss, and told them to come back quickly. 

Bai Chunian put the wok on top of the fire and poured in water to boil.
He cut the oversized scallops that Rimbaud brought ashore into pieces, blanched them in water, drained them out, and put them back in the scallop shells to use later.

He poured out the water, wiped the bottom of the pot, poured the oil, cut onion, ginger, and garlic and sauteed them until fragrant.
He put in the seasonings and cooked it into a thick sauce.

Bai Chunian sat on the floor with his legs crossed.
His right hand was resting on his knee while his left hand was holding a spoon, slowly stirring the sauce in the wok.

Rimbaud was lying beside him.
His cheeks were propped up and his raised tail was lazily swinging in the air.
His eyes curved into smiles as he looked at Bai Chunian. 

Bai Chunian poured the cooked sauce over the scallop meat.
After it had cooled, he picked up a piece and fed it into Rimbaud’s mouth.

Rimbaud opened his mouth to eat it and chewed it.
Little stars filled his eyes and the tip of his tail curled up in satisfaction.

The other merfolks drooled as they crawled over.
However, without the king’s permission, they could only watch on the sidelines and didn’t dare to approach.

Rimbaud didn’t want to share the meal made by Randi with others, but Bai Chunian pushed the big shell towards them and gestured to them to eat together.
“Feel free.” 

Each of the merfolks went over to take a piece and crawled away.
After that, the sound of smacking lips rang out on the island.

They had never eaten cooked food.
The cooking skills that Bai Chunian had purposely improved were simply heavenly delicacies for merfolks who had never eaten human food.

“Hen.” Rimbaud looked at the shells that were emptied to the bottom, turned to the side with his arms crossed.

“You eat the food I cook every day, haven’t you had enough?” Bai Chunian turned off the stove, casually placed the clutter on the floor, and cleared out an open space. 

“Not enough.” Rimbaud turned his head, “Eat… a thousand years.”

Bai Chunian hugged Rimbaud from behind and brought him into his lap.
He took out a roll of medical bandages from the first-aid box he brought and meticulously wrapped it around Rimbaud’s body.
Rimbaud’s waist was so slender that Bai Chunian could easily wrap him in the crook of his arm.
The bandages wrapped around Rimbaud’s body again and again, covering the scars on his back.

There was a shallow mark that had already healed on top of these deep scars, but it looked like it was a recent wound.

Bai Chunian asked, “Did you get into a fight with someone?” 

Rimbaud recalled the white shark omega that he had torn apart.
He hesitated for a moment before replying softly, “He hurt me first.”

“You vented?”

“En.”

“That’s good then.
If you haven’t vented, I’ll go and beat him up for you.” 

Rimbaud looked down and his lips couldn’t help curling into a smile.

The alpha’s fingers occasionally rubbed against the omega’s spine and the temperature on his fingertips passed through the bandage.
Rimbaud quietly scratched the ground with the tip of his tail.

“At first… didn’t plan to return… I’m very disappointed.” With downcast eyes, Rimbaud said, “You asked me to change my mind.”

“The clan has flaws… got cheated.” 

“But I still love…the silly them.”

Bai Chunian rested his chin on Rimbaud’s shoulder, wrapped his arms around Rimbaud from behind, and interlocked fingers with him, but he couldn’t hold it too tight or the webs would be torn.

Due to Rimbaud, the detection device beside him could still work properly.
The detection images transmitted from 100 underwater drones were displayed on the device.
On the lower left corner of the screen, a strangely-shaped foreign object passed by.
Bai Chunian caught this miniscule movement from the corner of his eye.

“Experimental Subject No.
809 Kraken has been roaming around the west parts of the Atlantic, have you seen him? Seems like it is an enormous octopus.
Moreover, its weight and volume keeps increasing.” Bai Chunian whispered in Rimbaud’s ear, “His motives are still unknown, so we must be careful.” 

Rimbaud raised his brows.
“There’s nothing that can challenge me in the Caribbean Sea.”

They were whispering to each other when a sharp finger suddenly pulled the hem of Bai Chunian’s clothes.

Bai Chunian looked back and saw those merfolks crawling ashore with six or seven kilograms of abalone, lobster, scallops, sea snails, starfish, and sea cucumbers on their backs.

The merfolks looked at Bai Chunian with pious eyes as if they were looking at a god.
They all knelt down, raised the seafood with their two hands, kissed the tip of Bai Chunian’s shoes, and begged the queen to give them fascinating food. 

Bai Chunian said, “Ah—?”

All this while, it was actually me they were calling Queen???