Egg

Eggy had grown a whole size bigger.

The incubator automatically tracked and recorded Eggy's data every day. Over the past few days, Lu Jiu had reviewed the data to check on Eggy's health and discovered that Eggy's weight had been rapidly increasing by fractions of a gram each day, much faster than when it had first arrived in the incubator.

Si Jinyan, who spent time with Eggy every day, noticed it as well. Lying in his palm, Eggy was clearly a whole size bigger than before.

At the time, Eggy also slept less throughout the day than it had before. It spent this sudden extra time awake clinging to Si Jinyan.

It had come to understand the concept of time and knew that Si Jinyan would usually come see it in the early morning, at noon, in the evening, and at night.

So whenever those times came around, the silver-white egg stood especially alertly in the incubator, watching the door.

That morning, Si Jinyan had just finished visiting Eggy and was about to return it to the incubator when Eggy suddenly rolled toward Si Jinyan's body in his palm.

Fortunately, Si Jinyan caught it in time. Had he been even slightly slower, the egg might have fallen to the floor.

Mermaid eggs were sturdy and not easily damaged by a fall, but Si Jinyan's eyes still widened and his heart clenched. He could not allow anything at all to happen to Eggy.

With a stern expression, Si Jinyan gripped the egg in his hand a little more tightly, looking exactly like a father about to scold a child who had done something wrong.

The egg was suddenly gripped tight. The constricting sensation, along with the oppressive pressure of bloodline suppression, descended on Eggy, and it immediately began crying out in