He had no choice but to wag his fish tail at Chu Xuanzhen, hoping to make him forget that he had tried to fool him. Of course, that was impossible.
Shen Yangge had no idea what kind of fish he had turned into, but the one thing he could be certain of was that he was definitely on the human menu. After all, he had just escaped the Kitchen with a narrow brush with danger.
Chu Xuanzhen wore a dark expression the entire time. Shen Yangge could not tell what he was feeling, though it probably was not anything good. He could not speak human language, so getting anxious would do him no good.
He blew a few bubbles and swam around the basin, occasionally flicking droplets into the air with his tail. The water instantly took on a pale golden hue, hovering in the air for a moment before falling back into the basin. Shen Yangge immediately realized that he could use the special skills of his "Mermaid identity."
Puzzled, he could not help wondering whether System 615 was nearby, or whether Chu Xuanzhen was the reason his abilities had recovered so quickly.
Either possibility was good news for Shen Yangge.
Reduced to a fish and deprived of speech, Shen Yangge had a bellyful of words he could not get out. In the end, he could only channel his frustration into complaints.
After being left hanging for an hour and a half, Shen Yangge began blowing bubbles while unleashing a furious stream of thoughts:
It wasn't my choice to turn into this, and I didn't ask to be abducted either. Chu Xuanzhen, we're both adults. Can't we communicate properly...?
*Even if I can't speak human language, we could communicate with our eyes, or you could ask and I could