This was the first time Hao Ren had gained such a direct understanding of how amazing the gap between species could be.
After confirming repeatedly, the few half-trained guardians finally determined that Little Merman was treating the chopsticks as food rather than simply biting them at random. The tiny thing, barely half a foot long, had an astonishing bite force. Bamboo chopsticks snapped away in her mouth like chocolate sticks, leaving crumbs all over the table. Hao Ren had indeed been startled at first, but after seeing the drool at the corners of Little Merman's mouth, he completely gave up on snatching the chopsticks back.
Half a chopstick soon disappeared into her stomach. Only then did the mermaid baby's belly bulge slightly. She patted it in satisfaction, let out a bamboo-flavored burp, then slapped into the basin and began drinking water. Her agility and practiced eating made it hard to believe she was a little creature that had only hatched a few hours ago. Lily watched in amazement, and only after a long while did she think of something. "Hey, if that's the case, she should be able to bite through my chew stick too... Landlord, don't you think?"
You had to hand it to a husky for having such a broad train of thought. At a moment like this, Lily was probably the only one who could sigh over something like that.
"She eats bamboo?" Vivian's expression was as strange as it could be. "In all my years... this is the first time I've heard of a mermaid eating bamboo, and a newly hatched fry at that."
"No, she probably eats coarse plant fibers." Nangong May was at least somewhat of an aquatic product herself, so her analysis was much more reliable than everyone else's. "There's no bamboo in