"Me-me-ling."
This was the pitiful cry of Mermaid Maiden Chu Chu, who was tightly bound by invisible chains.
At that moment, the frail and petite Mermaid Maiden was surrounded by two humans, a man and a woman, while sitting limply on the ground. She looked as helpless and pitiful as though she were about to be captured and sold by evil human traffickers.
Su Ming and Xu Qianqian looked at each other, and in the end, both noticed a trace of guilt in the other's eyes that was difficult to conceal.
There was no doubt about it. Both of them felt as though they were doing something bad.
Only, this feeling was clearly somewhat wrong.
"Let me ask you, Young Miss." Su Ming said gloomily, "We chose to save her and keep her here so Longyao City wouldn't fall into chaos, and to repay her for saving our lives before, right?"
What he meant was that he truly wasn't doing anything bad. In fact, he was doing a good deed, wasn't he?
"Why do I feel like I've become the bad guy?"
Su Ming was utterly baffled.
"I don't think there's anything improper about what we're doing, either." Xu Qianqian was silent for a while before saying, "This child is ultimately a Phantom Demon, an existence irreconcilable with humanity. We didn't kill her outright or use her to extract her bloodline. That already counts as going above and beyond. There's no reason for us to receive any condemnation."
Those words came from Xu Qianqian's mouth, yet they were completely lacking in her usual calmness and decisiveness. Instead, they were filled with unprecedented hesitation.
There was no need to think about it. Xu Qianqian hadn't said those words to convince anyone else, but to convince herself.
One could imagine how complicated