Hao Ren often had a profound sense of how vastly the values of different races could differ, especially when dealing with the Sirens. No matter how much these deep-sea saltwater fish resembled carbon-based life-forms, they were, in essence, Elemental creatures. The greatest difference between Elemental creatures and ordinary life-forms was that their understanding of the material world was completely unlike that of normal people. Just look at the present situation: the Siren Queen had transported a huge pile of junk from Earth with great solemnity—at least a third of it really was junk—and Eva seemed quite delighted...
Hao Ren had even spotted a waterlogged oversized leather shoe among the gifts. He had no idea which Siren had picked it up while wandering along the seaside. Even more despairingly, he discovered that in Katerina's worldview, this thing counted as seafood from Earth, and she had already begun earnestly instilling this idea in Eva...
More precisely, in the Sirens' worldview, anything that came from the sea counted as seafood—including swim rings, message bottles, offshore drilling platforms, and Jack, who had gone down with the Titanic...
Building on this foundation, Katerina described the living environment of Earth's Sirens to Eva. Eva listened with great interest. Hao Ren had no idea what kind of image of Earth's oceans this Spirit of the Ocean was sketching out in her "mind," but it was certainly nothing like the sea as humans understood it.
"I'm... happy!" Eva joyfully surged around Katerina and the other Sirens. The entire sea echoed with splashing water. "It's great here too! There are fish, water plants, and Iron Island! The people on Iron Island have recently learned how to eat fish and water plants too!"
Hao Ren smiled at Eva. "Are you getting along well with the immigrants?"
"Good!" Eva poured down