The Parrot docked at seven thirty that evening.
According to plan, Xu Ye brought Kus along and deliberately let himself be "accidentally" discovered while breaking through Mermaid Island's barrier, leading to their detention.
The tribe lay in a mountain hollow crisscrossed by rivers. Thanks to its special barrier, ordinary Awakened could not discover it at all.
The tourists who came ashore were merely looking for something novel.
Mermaids did not walk along the ground on land. They possessed an ability to hover slightly above it, much like Xu Ye when he used Mayfly.
At that moment, Xu Ye wore special shackles on both wrists and swayed the realistic mermaid tail Lillian had prepared for him long before. Using Mayfly's levitation, he floated an inch above the ground as he followed a group of burly mermaids.
Only two seashells covered his chest.
Fortunately, Lillian had always been muscular, and the tribespeople had not seen her in a long time. Slight changes in her build and appearance were perfectly reasonable.
As long as he had the luminous pearl belonging to a mermaid, they would not suspect anything.
According to Lillian, adult mermaids could choose their own sex. Of course, many waited until they had a mate before choosing, then fulfilled their duty of producing offspring.
The tribe was ancient, and everything exuded an air of the distant past. Most buildings were made of stone and stood near the rivers, since mermaids could not stay away from water for long.
Kus the Fishman's two fair, shapely legs dangled over Xu Ye's shoulders. Chains also wrapped around his body, restricting his abilities.
"Mr. Xu, there are nearly ten thousand mermaids in total. That's already a very small population across all of Planet Earth, so we're extremely rare."
"That over there is our chief, Chief