Quick Transmigrating Second Female Lead’s Counterattack

Chapter 259 There’s a Mermaid at Home (10.20)

Just a heads up, the end of this chapter is NSFW.

“Some of them have spiritual strength, some are physically strong, some are very intelligent. All of them will be the empire’s talents in the future.”

XunMi was silent. Why did she have the sense that Grandpa Andrew was deliberately taking the opposite view of her family’s husband?

Actually, Andrew also had this layer of meaning to his words: If you, this stinky boy, tortures me like this, I’ll go against your wishes.

However, the most important thing was still that he wanted to let XunMi learn under the best of circumstances.

The current policy in the Empire was already very open to mermaids. As long as you had the ability, you could do any job.

Of course, it was different for those who had no other means. For example they could join the army, and be sent to the battlefield.

Nevertheless, there were many opportunities in the army, such as becoming a clerk, drill instructor, or assistant, all as long as you had the ability.

When they entered the classroom, a class was already underway. At the podium a natural mermaid, who looked a little old, was lecturing.

“Dean Andrew, is this a new student? Please come in.”

The teacher wasn’t too fawning, nor did she seem to be sucking up to him. She just pointed out a seat for XunMi to go sit at.

Andrew said a few words to the teacher and then left. He still had a lot of things to do.

XunMi was surrounded by curious gazes, but class remained peaceful until the end. Afterwards, she stopped the teacher to ask about the school library.

Classes were over for the day, so students could choose to either study by themselves or go home.

Of course, she wouldn’t let go of such a good opportunity to use the special access card that Grandpa Andrew gave her. With it, she was able to go up to the 17th floor of the library unhindered.

There were a total of 18 floors. It wasn’t that XunMi didn’t think of going directly to the 18th floor to search for answers, but she didn’t want to be too hasty.

So she restrained herself. She slid her finger across the rows of books, and found that, unexpectedly, most of them contained information about deep sea mermaids.

She pulled out a book at random to take a look.

This planet, in the beginning, before it even had a name, belonged to the Sea People. {T/N: The “people” in this sense is a race or nationality, not necessarily humanoids.}

After the human race arrived, the humans began to occupy the dry land by force. Afterwards, they advanced on the Sea People.

They did not expect to find the existence of the Sea People. Their existence unexpectedly solved the humans’ dire emergency, and gave them hope for continued survival.1

For more than a thousand years, the two races coexisted in joyful harmony.

That is, until more than 1,300 years later, when deep sea mermaids began to frequently disappear, which caught the attention of the Emperor of the Sea.

The first Emperor personally went ashore to investigate, but was forced to flee back to the deep sea, leaving only a sentence that the deep sea mermaids were forbidden to go ashore, and never again have contact with humans. After these words, the Emperor left forever.2

There was no information on what happened afterwards, but from XunMi’s memories, she knew that there had then been peace and stability for centuries.

But then the cycle repeated: this going ashore, being respected and valued, then disappearing, and then the Emperor of the Sea going up to investigate but then shortly thereafter dying.

It was as if the deep sea was cursed, and each generation of Emperor did not have a good end.

The last Emperor of the Sea, who was expected to become the Sea God, died the most strangely. As soon as the Emperor climbed ashore, all the Emperor’s power dried up, and they withered and died.3

XunMi had never believed these were coincidences. She always felt that the deep sea mermaids and the Emperor of the Sea were possessed by bad luck.

The method of dying was always the same, and the cause was also always the same. At this point, having doubts of it being a coincidence wouldn’t do.

Thinking of herself, the circumstances were almost entirely the same. Because of Betti, she had left the deep sea and come ashore to look for her.

Heh heh…4 The hell? This was just a cycle of death. If she couldn’t find the point of this cycle, then even if she ended the human race, she felt that this phenomenon still might not necessarily be resolved.