Chapter 1 Situation Beyond Expectations

The situation once again exceeded everyone's expectations.

According to the previous plan, Li Ang and the others, who were lying in wait for the mermaid, should have eliminated this treacherous monster at the first opportunity.

However, after hearing the even more explosive news, even the two spellcasters who were so loyal to the governor could not bring themselves to say that the Black Mermaid should be killed directly.

Bloodline. Passing on the bloodline was a mission for the nobles that was second only to continuing the family's glory.

Even if the Black Mermaid's belly contained a bastard, a bastard between a human and a monster,

That was not something that mere servants like the spellcasters could casually dispose of.

The young spellcaster hesitated for a moment and glanced at his master. After receiving the latter's nod, he whispered to Li Ang, "Venerable Monk, I'll go and consult with the Governor."

Li Ang nodded and stepped aside slightly, allowing the young spellcaster to jog out of the secret chamber.

At this time, the Governor should be with his wife and son, at the other end of the mansion, receiving protection from other spellcasters, quietly awaiting the results from Li Ang's side.

Since the young spellcaster had gone to the Governor, Li Ang wasn't in a hurry. He leaned on his scythe and casually asked, "Your Rune Kingdom language is very good. Did someone in the mermaid tribe teach you?"

The Killing Game system had its own translation function, but judging from the mermaid's lip movements and the two spellcasters' reactions, she was speaking the official language, not some gibberish bird language.

"No."

The Black Mermaid shook her head. "My tribe hates humans and everything about them. Only the priests in the tribe, my tutors, are willing to record human culture. But she wouldn't teach me, probably because she was afraid I would become curious about humans.

I only learned your language after coming to this city, by turning into water vapor and listening to the conversations of humans in the city.

In human terms, mermaids are a naturally intelligent race with an extremely strong learning ability.

What's more, I am a genius in the tribe."

Genius?

Li Ang remained noncommittal and continued, "The priest is your tutor? Are you a mermaid princess?"

"If you call the tribe a kingdom, then I am indeed a princess."

The Black Mermaid nodded. Although she appeared to be collapsed on the ground, she exuded an aura of pride and restraint. "According to human worldly concepts, Peter's status is probably not comparable to mine.

But I don't care about that, just as Peter doesn't care about my background. We love each other."

Just as the Black Mermaid was indulging in her own thoughts, a dense sound of footsteps echoed in the corridor.

Li Ang didn't need to poke his head outside the door to roughly guess the identities of the people based on the sound of their footsteps.

A moment later, the young spellcaster and an expressionless colleague walked in.

They first took out a pair of stone handcuffs and put them on the mermaid. Then, they took out a glass funnel and a test tube, held down the struggling mermaid, and used the funnel to pour the purple potion in the test tube into the mermaid's mouth.

The players watched all of this indifferently. The stone handcuffs were probably tools used to restrain spellcasters, and the purple potion was likely to weaken their abilities as well.

You have to say, this is what you'd expect from a noble family. Their resources are just abundant.

After drinking the magic potion, the mermaid quickly weakened. She listlessly drooped her head, breathing laboriously, and her shackled hands hung limply on the floor.

Tap, tap, tap.

The sound of footsteps echoed in the corridor again. This time, the Governor, with his wife and son, walked into the secret chamber, surrounded by several spellcasters.

The Governor first glanced expressionlessly at the mermaid on the ground. After being slightly startled by her ugliness,

He nodded slightly to Li Ang, expressing his gratitude. "Thank you very much, venerable Monk. The matter is now resolved. You can go to my secretary to collect your reward.

The Taylor family always repays its debts. We will not forget your contribution."

The implication was that he wanted to ask Li Ang and the other Eastern monks to leave,

The Taylor family wanted to close the door and handle their own affairs.

Hearing the Governor's guarantee, John Joyce, Julia, and the others desperately winked at Li Ang.

Damn it. According to John and the others' expectations, being impregnated with Taylor family blood by a Black Mermaid in this era would undoubtedly be an unbearable scandal for the Governor's family.

These Eastern monks knew about the scandal and should be killed to silence them, buried in some unknown place.

Now the Governor didn't seem to have any intention of killing them and even wanted to pay the agreed-upon reward (which was to help them clear out the church). If they didn't leave now, when would they?

"Are your eyes playing tricks on you? Why are you flirting with me?"

Li Ang glanced at his teammates who were winking frantically and chuckled. Without losing an inch of ground, he said to the Governor, "Governor, I think it's better for me to stay here.

I can serve as a third party, providing opinions and suggestions on how to resolve the problem.

What's more, there are some things in the nearshore waters east of the Rune Kingdom that I am interested in..."

Li Ang didn't say it directly, but the other teammates could all tell that the so-called "things of interest" should be the sixth shard of the Demon Mirror (the first two had already been collected, and the third, fourth, and fifth were all near Morley City).

Hearing Li Ang's words, the Governor's face remained expressionless.

He maintained a long silence, so long that John Joyce and the others were about to lose their patience and prepare to take action, before he slowly said, "Then you may stay here."

"Phew..."

John Joyce and the others silently breathed a sigh of relief and retreated a few steps, making way for the spellcasters under the Governor's command.

During this process, Julia clearly noticed that the expression on Peter's face was very strange. It was likely that the young spellcaster had already reported the situation to the Governor's family.

"Then,"

The Governor sat down on the chair that his subordinates had brought over, sat upright in front of the Black Mermaid, and asked indifferently, "What is the situation with your child?"

The Black Mermaid raised her head with some difficulty and said coldly, "It's my child with Peter."

The Governor tapped the armrest of the chair noncommittally, not even looking at his son who was timidly staring at the floor.

(At this time, Li Ang didn't know where he got a chair from. He crossed his legs and happily admired this scene of a wealthy family feud.)

The Governor was silent for a moment before slowly saying, "The sailors who brought Peter away from the island told me that Peter's shirt was open, but his pants and the belt on his pants were intact."

"Heh,"

The Black Mermaid said with a sneer, "What do you take me for? A shameless animal? I would never do that!"

"Then what happened?"

The Governor sneered, "An immaculate conception of a holy son? If you don't tell me, I will have you placed on a cutting board and cut open your belly like a fish."

"..."

The Black Mermaid was silent for a moment. She glanced at Peter, who was looking down at the floor, took a deep breath, as if cheering herself up, and stretched her neck forward.

Her actions made the spellcasters nervous. They each took out their weapons, preparing for the mermaid to suddenly attack or disappear.

However, the Black Mermaid just kept gagging,

Under everyone's gaze, the mermaid's waist and abdomen slowly swelled, followed by her chest, neck, throat, and mouth...

Just like Piccolo from the Dragon Ball manga.

"Blegh!"

Finally, the mermaid spat out an egg.

To be precise, it was an egg with a transparent shell, filled with a similarly transparent liquid, and... a large pile of pink fish eggs.

"Fish lay their eggs outside the body, and the embryos develop externally, relying entirely on the nutrients inside the egg during the embryonic development."

The Black Mermaid said calmly, "The mermaid's method of reproduction is external fertilization.

I gave Peter a traditional handjob through his pants in the sea, and then I got pregnant."

The scene was silent. Everyone stared at the egg, dumbfounded.

Only Li Ang, after a brief moment of thought, looked at Peter, who was equally shocked, and clapped his hands, laughing, "Congratulations, your wife laid an egg."