Bringing Doudou along had taken no small amount of effort. After all, no matter how you looked at it, a living little merman didn't exactly seem capable of passing through airport security. Hao Ren had originally planned to leave her at home as before and arrange for someone to look after the little one, but after her previous boring experience of being left behind, Doudou had gotten smarter. The moment she saw everyone preparing to travel, she clung to Hao Ren and refused to let go, hanging off him for a full half-day until he helplessly agreed to bring her along. The little one was happy, but she caused the adults no end of trouble. In the end, Hao Ren had no choice but to stuff her into his pocket dimension and bring her with them...
The pocket dimension was theoretically unsuitable for storing living creatures. It was a dark place containing nothing at all—silent, lightless, and weightless, vast and desolate enough to drive any living thing inside insane in a short time. Its user manual even included a special warning: "Unless you bear a grudge against someone for murdering your father, please do not casually attempt to transport living creatures in this space. This Administration accepts no responsibility for any subsequent psychiatric treatment." Hao Ren might not have had many other virtues, but no one could surpass him when it came to broad-minded thinking. Before leaving, he went to the seafood market and bought an enormous aquarium, then returned to the Giant Turtle Rock Platform to retrieve a small artificial-gravity device. Finally, he decorated the aquarium with aquatic lights, fake rocks, and the like, and even added an air pump—though that was purely for blowing bubbles for Doudou to play with. When they set off, he also tossed the