The shark-man narrowed his eyes, and a long spear materialized again in his right hand.
But this time he didn't choose to attack directly; instead, he stared intently at the girl.
He seemed to be struggling with a decision.
A moment later, he gritted his teeth, gripped the spear tightly, and charged forward once more.
The girl closed her eyes in terror once again.
After a while, nothing happened.
Could it be that my hand started moving again?
The girl swallowed hard, mustered her courage, and opened her eyes again.
But his hands remained on his head, no longer blocking the attack as they had before.
She looked up in confusion and saw that the shark-man's leg had been grabbed by another shark-man, and then he was suddenly thrown to the ground.
What are you doing!
The male shark-man who was thrown to the ground angrily got up, only to be slapped by the female shark-man who had grabbed him.
What am I going to do!
What am I doing!
What am I doing? Don't you have any self-awareness?
The female shark slapped the other person's face repeatedly, leaving him stunned.
The female shark-woman shook her hand and pointed at the other person menacingly.
"Don't just think about killing before you've figured things out! Don't you have anything else in your head?!"
The male shark was also a little unconvinced.
"Any intruder, regardless of what kind of creature, must be killed! I have no problem with that!"
"Did she come in from outside?"
The shark-man was stunned for a moment, scratched his head, and realized that the girl didn't seem to have barged in.
The female shark-woman sighed and rubbed her forehead, then slapped the other woman again before slowly swimming towards the girl.
Having overheard their conversation, the girl roughly understood that the female shark-woman in front of her didn't seem to want to kill her.
But she still stood up nervously.
Huh?! Why can I understand their language?
The girl suddenly realized that they were speaking a language she had never spoken before, but she didn't know why she could understand it.
It was as if I had learned it before.
"Hey, where did you come from? What kind of fish is that?"
The female shark-woman crossed her arms, straightened her body, and looked down at the girl.
The girl then realized that these shark-men were all incredibly large!
At 1.6 meters tall, he barely reached the chest of the female shark-woman in front of him, and her breasts were almost bigger than his head...
As for his other appearance, he wasn't much different from that male shark man.
He had long, jet-black hair, and two black lines running from the top of his head through his eyes and down.
A pair of enormous shark fins grow from its back, like angel wings, and are very beautiful.
"I'm asking you a question, what are you?"
The female shark-woman asked again, somewhat impatiently, and the girl quickly spoke up.
"Um... my name is Hela!"
"Yes, it's a... uh... human?"
Hela lowered her head and cautiously revealed that she was human, while observing the female shark-woman's expression.
Because, according to the usual tropes in movies and TV shows, these non-human intelligent beings are usually very hostile towards humans.
Hela dared not hide the truth and could only prepare to flee at any moment.
However, the female shark-woman didn't react much when she heard that Hela was human; her serious face only showed a hint of doubt.
What are humans? A race?
Hela was taken aback at first, then nodded frantically like a chick pecking at rice.
The female shark-woman nodded slightly. "So, are you something from the surface?"
Although Hela felt that the other person's words were a bit impolite, she didn't dare to say anything and could only answer honestly.
"Yes, that's right..."
"Then how did you get here? What are you doing here?" The female shark-woman's eyes narrowed.
Hela swallowed hard. "I... I don't know."
"Don't know?" Her eyes suddenly sharpened, like a razor-sharp blade, staring intently at Hela, as if trying to see right through her.
Hela was startled. "I really don't know. I only remember drawing under a tree, and then I felt like I slept for a very, very long time. When I woke up, I was here."
Hela's eyes were slightly red, and she didn't seem to be lying at all.
Think about it carefully.
Hela touched her head, trying hard to recall what had happened during that long period of blank memory.
No matter how hard she tried to recall, her mind remained a blur, and she could only vaguely remember that someone important had left her.
That's all I can think of.
Seeing Hela's expression, the female shark-woman sighed softly and stopped pressing her for answers.
"Alright, since you can't remember, I won't ask anymore. I'm just going to address your last question: are you really a creature from the ground?"
Yes, absolutely!
This Hela is definitely her.
"Okay, according to them, you popped out of a stone in the museum. This stone has been here for five years and is already considered part of our Ocean World."
Since you've come out from there, that stuff belongs to our Ocean World, so I won't chase you away.
Hela was a little taken aback.
An underwater world? Sprout from a rock? Five years?!
The information contained in those two short sentences was a bit too much for Hela's mind to process.
He was sealed inside a rock for five years? And now he's in the ocean?!
Aren't there no living creatures on the seabed?!
Even though the thing in front of her didn't look like a creature from the surface at all, Hela still couldn't believe that she was really in the underwater world.
After all, she had been taught since childhood that there were no other creatures in the sea except for sharks that occasionally floated up.
Just then, a petite figure slowly swam over from outside.
Seeing that Hela was still alive, she was so frightened that she immediately darted behind the male shark-man nearby.
And this was the mermaid teacher who had just led a group of little mermaids.
She was even smaller Hela, only half the size of these shark-men.
"The Guardian... how is he still alive? Shouldn't he be killed immediately?!"
Her voice trembled with fear, and the male shark-man sighed helplessly.
"I wanted to kill him too, but my captain wouldn't let me."
The female shark-woman glared at the other person, then swam up to the teacher. "This isn't an intruder, there's no need to kill it."
"Isn't that dangerous?"
"Of course it's dangerous..." the male shark-man muttered under his breath.
I don't know if it's dangerous or not, but it doesn't seem dangerous at the moment. However, it's best to observe it for a few more days.
Why don't you take her along? She seems to know nothing about us here. Since she's from the surface, she can help your students learn about the surface world.
Upon hearing this, the teacher felt there was some truth to it.
Seeing that they didn't seem hostile towards her yet, Hela mustered her courage and approached them.
"Um... you really won't do anything to me?"
"No," the female shark replied without hesitation, "I just need to observe you for a few days."
"Uh, are you guys going to drag me away for dissection and research?"
"Huh, what's that?"
"..."