"I only said that after I saw you!" Jiang Lan wiped the seawater off his face. The hood of his penguin suit had collapsed under the water and clung to his head. "I really didn't know there were Deep Sea Demon Whales in this sea! I just wanted to catch something for dinner!"
"Wooo-wooo!"
You eat Deep Sea Demon Whales for dinner?
You've certainly got a big appetite!
"I told you I didn't know!" Jiang Lan bounced twice on the ice reef in his agitation, his stubby legs making the ice creak. "If I'd known it was you, I wouldn't have cast that hook even if someone beat me to death! My Mom Bo Saixi told me the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's clan isn't to be trifled with. I'd be too busy keeping out of your way!"
At the words "Mom Bo Saixi," Lan Fozi's tail paused in its slapping.
Someone came to mind, but she wasn't sure whether he meant that person.
"Woo?"
Bo Saixi? The Bo Saixi from Sea God Island?
"Yes!" Jiang Lan seized the chance and nodded hurriedly, pointing at himself with a stubby little hand. "Bo Saixi is my mom! My name's Jiang Lan! I'm from Sea God Island!"
Lan Fozi narrowed her eyes further, her enormous whale body circling in the seawater and raising a string of huge bubbles.
She turned her head back toward Jiang Lan. Some of the anger in her blue eyes had faded, but the wariness remained.
"Wooo-woo?"
What's someone from Sea God Island doing in the Far North? And fishing with jerky, at that?
"I'm traveling!" Jiang Lan pulled a dry towel from his Storage Soul Tool and explained as he wiped his face. "I was passing through the Far North and heard there was a sea here,