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Chapter 170 Feeding
When she heard Jiang Yu say that she didn't want to change her body shape, Morinbia was a little troubled. If nothing unexpected happened, the little girl would be able to feel the changes in her body in a couple of days. What if she was unhappy, angry, or cried then?
But this wasn't the only thing that had upset it in the past two days. It felt that the bad guys on land probably knew that it had hidden the little one in the forbidden sea. Large armies and some organized assassins, riding sea beasts, kept circling the edge of the forbidden sea, chasing it away only to have it return again and again, which really annoyed it to no end.
At first, it impatiently crushed a few of them, but this not only had no effect, but it was also afraid that Jiang Yu would hate it even more if she found out, so it was really distressed. Lately, it didn't dare to leave the forbidden sea area, and it couldn't go to find the big sea snails that Jiang Yu liked to eat anymore. It could only find food nearby to feed her, which it felt was very unfair to her, and it was really super irritable.
So, without realizing it, Morinbia arrived at the central hall again.
Since being awakened, Triton has been staying in the amethyst mirror. As a remnant soul, he has been nurtured by this divinely bestowed mirror and cannot leave this place.
Just when he was incredibly bored, he saw a sea monster with a face full of depression standing outside the hall, pretending to be a sea anemone.
So he popped out of the mirror, waving his hand with an air of morbid curiosity: "Hey bro, got anything interesting? Share it with me!"
Molymbia had a sour face, but she still awkwardly shuffled in from outside the hall.
"The little one doesn't like me." It began with self-judgment. "Did I scare her? But I've taken good care of her, I've tried my best to be good to her, why doesn't she like me?"
“You really are quite ugly,” Triton nodded in complete agreement. But this was met with a loud retort from Morinbia: “You’re talking nonsense! She said I was beautiful, very pretty!”
Triton curled his lip dismissively and sneered, "What do you need her to like you for? You can support her, and as long as she's alive, that's enough. This is your absolute territory now, and there's no one else here. Are you worried she'll run off with someone else?"
“That’s different.” Morinbia felt that what Triton said made some sense, but she couldn’t quite put her finger on what was wrong. When she sensed his ill intentions in watching the show, she was 100% certain that this old man who was still causing trouble even after he was dead was indeed up to no good.
“Although she appears stable, I can sense that she is actually very scared. No matter how much I comfort her or try to be extra kind to her, it doesn’t seem to be working. Will this have any impact on her health?” Morinbia asked.
After all, Triton interacted more with humans during his lifetime, although they were always adversaries.
"It'll have some impact. She'll probably die," Triton said casually.
"What!!!" Morinbia shouted in disbelief, her tentacles starting to swing uncontrollably again.
"Hey, can you please retract these damn tentacles? Can't we have a normal conversation?" Triton waved his hand in exasperation. Tentacles were the most disgusting thing ever.
"You need to understand that humans are social beings. They need a lot of interpersonal relationships to support their social needs. They need family, love, friendship, and all sorts of other random things." Triton felt he understood this very well, after all, he had been fighting with them for thousands of years and had a clear understanding of the inherent flaws of these foolish creatures.
Their desires are too intense; they often whine without reason, even sacrificing their lives for love. These bad habits and traits greatly shorten their lifespan—truly a foolish race. Therefore, it's not without reason that these powerful and rational sea creatures can easily outlive them two or three times over.
However, he also had to admit that it was precisely those illusory and unnecessary loves that created the brilliant and rich civilization of humankind.
So he continued, "If you just treat her as a pet, you don't have to take her mood too seriously. When she dies, you can always find a more suitable pet. Why don't you find a pearl oyster that can live for tens of thousands of years, use an altar to teach it to talk, and then it can spit out some pearls for you to eat from time to time? Wouldn't that be better?"
"But if you have higher emotional needs for her, you need to think carefully. If she sees you as her master, she will still need her own partner and family. If she sees you as a symbiotic partner, she will still need her own partner and family. Without these, in this empty seabed, living her whole life with only a creature completely different from herself, although her life will be short, she will also get sick and die from loneliness."
“I understand.” Morinbia raised a tentacle, behaving like a well-behaved child listening attentively. “She needs a companion, a creature like herself!”
Triton nodded with satisfaction. This kid is teachable. All that talking was worth it. He's gotten it so quickly.
“There are so many men outside, I’ll go grab one,” Morinbia said happily. Triton almost bumped his head on the mirror and broke himself.
"Are you crazy?!" he couldn't help but curse. Then he patiently and persuasively explained, "That way they'll be all lovey-dovey in your world, and you'll become a complete traitor. Not only will you have to watch her love only another person, but you'll also have to support another person. But if you're just raising two frogs, then never mind what I said."
"You could just go and catch one. Maybe you can even get them to have some offspring to keep you company."
"..." Morinbia fell into thought, carefully analyzing every word and sentence Triton had said. Then, his entire body exploded into a flower, roaring, "Those damned men, I'm going to kill them all! Damn it, my little one can only look at me, can only think of me!"
"Well, no one would feel that way about their pet," Triton said with a wicked grin. "Think about you and me, what if all I wanted was for you to think about me..."
The human and the monster stared at each other, silently imagining what would happen next, before simultaneously turning their faces away and involuntarily letting out a "Ugh~" sound.
"Seriously, don't go out and say I was your former master, okay? It's really embarrassing. With your IQ, I've practically fed you, and you still don't open your mouth." Triton sarcastically remarked to this incredibly stupid sea monster.
Aside from its appearance, this guy shows absolutely no resemblance to the Muliu clan. It's a good thing it's the only one left; if its patriarch were still alive, he'd probably have to be humanely euthanized or remade. The Muliu clan really miscalculated, going through so much trouble to save such an idiot.
"Can't you open your mind a little, brother?" Triton said helplessly. "You've already thought about modifying her body structure, can't you modify your own? Your Twilight Willow Clan isn't just good at invisibility, you can also shapeshift, can't you?"
I'll chew it up and feed it to him/her, he/she will eat it eventually, it's so frustrating.