Doomsday Wonderland - Chapter 101

Chapter 101: Shen Lianqi and His Friends

Red flames danced, casting a wavering light on Lin Sanjiu’s face. Roasted over the flames, the fats in the fish melted and oozed out like oil, which made a tantalizing sizzling sound. Every now and then, a few precious drops would fall into the fire, stirring the red flames.

Lin Sanjiu also didn’t expect that she would meet Shen Lianqi, a few thousand meters under sea level. Moreover, a Shen Lianqi… like that.

Lin Sanjiu took some time to compose herself and finally pulled her eyes away from his body. She started turning over the half-cooked meat in her hands, acting nonchalant. As she didn’t have metal skewers or a wooden stick, she had chosen a few long bones from the fish and threaded the pieces of meat with the makeshift bone skewers. "You have been living here, in the deep sea, for a month?" she asked as she focused her attention on the skewers.

"So, the weird gigantic fish is one of the mutated creatures?" Lin Sanjiu frowned, pondering about it. "But, why did I see a McDonald’s?"

Once she heard his explanation, Lin Sanjiu recalled hearing about how some deep sea creatures use their photophores for hunting. She suddenly shivered. She was probably smaller than the other mutated creatures here, so the dragonfish did not even care to bite her. If it did, she would have probably died, considering the daze she was in previously.
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[Yup.] Lin Sanjiu nodded.

"It happened too quickly, so I haven’t really recovered from it," she smiled, feeling sli

ghtly embarrassed by his praise.

Lin Sanjiu shifted a little uncomfortably.

"Oh, I’ll give you my shirt. Even though there isn’t anyone around, a lady shouldn’t walk around all day without a top." Shen Lianqi took off his shirt and smiled. "Anyway, I don’t need it."

When the fish was almost fully cooked, Lin Sanjiu sprinkled some salt on it. She immediately smelled the fragrance from the cooked fish meat with a hint of sea salt. The deep-sea dragonfish was hideous, and its meat was coarse and hard to chew. But to someone like Lin Sanjiu, who had not eaten meat for such a long time, the fish tasted flavorful and extremely delicious.

After some consideration, she decided to ask the question that had been on her mind.

Calling him a fish might not be the proper term.

"Haha!" Shen Lianqi laughed as he touched his head, a little abashed. "At the start, I wasn’t used to it. But as time went by, I realized that being this way is quite convenient!"

[He is almost half a fish… But why do I keep feeling that has his personality changed so much from when we were at the pier.] Lin Sanjiu felt that Shen Lianqi had become more optimistic and calm, he seemed very different from the first impression she had of him, a quick-witted but extremely timid man.

[Friends? We are in the deep ocean, where do your friends come from?]

"Beyond this waters, there is a shipwreck. The ship is stuck in between two rocks, so the hull is largely undamaged. I am living there now."

"See, I told you it is convenient." He laughed delightfully.

Shen Lianqi seemed comfortable with his own body. [Perhaps, he chose to become a mermaid out of his own accord. Maybe he is using a special equipment from that Twelve Worlds Centrum?] Lin Sanjiu thought to herself.

She took out her Ability Polishing Agent and held it high above her head. The silver light from the bottle spilled all around them.

Both of them stopped under the rock. They climbed to the tip of the rock and jumped onto the deck of the passenger ship. As Shen Lianqi had lived on the ship for a month, he was more than familiar with the interior. He guided Lin Sanjiu around, moving his two fish tails.

"That’s fantastic! I was feeling worried about it just now. I thought I might need to drink fish blood to survive," Lin Sanjiu exclaimed as her eyes lit up.

She had not drunk clean water for such a long time that she was reluctant to put down the bottle of water after she finished half of it, so she converted it into a card before following Shen Lianqi to the deck.

Seeing her expression, he quickly added, "You don’t have to worry. They’re good people. After I came here, they helped me out a lot. You can walk around, I’m leaving, okay?"

Her initial excitement about the ship gradually faded. Without another person accompanying her, the surroundings fell into a dead silence, and darkness enveloped her like a tangible essence. Her footsteps made long and dull echoes as she walked around the empty steel ship. Each time she thought about the fact that she was a few thousand meters below sea level, Lin Sanjiu would feel empty and lonely.

When she felt that she was tired of exploring, she kept her [Ability Polishing Agent] and took out her card with the bottled water. "Huh?" Lin Sanjiu muttered after she changed the card into its original form. She suddenly felt that something was wrong. But before she could think about it, she heard Shen Lianqi’s slightly excited voice: "Miss Lin, here are my friends!"