Chapter 1483 Fish-Flavored Celebration

That skittish little siren finally left the transport pipes after Shakira coaxed and scared her away. Before leaving, she couldn't help but curiously grabbing Doudou and staring at her for a long time: she had never seen such a small "kin" in her life, and her worldview was probably greatly impacted. Hao Ren didn't know anything else, but he knew that after this trip to N'zoth, he had a more thorough understanding of the "siren" race…

Soon, they arrived in the royal district in the center of N'zoth.

What appeared before Hao Ren was a group of buildings that had not yet been fully repaired. Here once stood the magnificent palace of the siren queen, but in the crisis a few months ago, the palace suffered massive damage due to the aftermath of the battle between everyone and the brain monster. The main part of it was almost razed to the ground, and most of the surrounding towers collapsed in the explosions. Such huge damage could not be rebuilt in a short time, and the sirens today do not have so many large machines and the architectural technology of the past, so they only repaired the spacecraft control facilities under the palace as much as possible, then cleaned up the surface ruins, and built a few temporary buildings on top to serve as the queen's residence and government offices. The domed halls on the large open space looked extremely shabby compared to the previous palace, but it was precisely because many building ruins were cleared that large open spaces were left here. These open spaces have now become a new gathering center. You can see groups of sirens wandering here—Hao Ren finally saw a few sirens who maintained human form, and his eyes were not tortured by those fighting mantis shrimps, giant sea crabs, and deep-sea slimes…

Shakira led Hao Ren and his party towards the gate of the temporary palace. Fortunately, the sirens in the palace hadn't completely dropped the ball. The combat maids guarding the gate still maintained their snake-woman appearance. These combat maids holding tridents, brave and heroic, recognized Hao Ren—because they had all been beaten by Hao Ren and his group. They immediately swam over to greet him happily, and two guards ran to notify the people inside. Hao Ren followed Shakira into the palace, but as soon as he entered, he found that the sirens in the palace were not that much better…

Except for the sirens who had to stand guard in various positions and keep watch, who still maintained human form, it was also a scene of demons dancing wildly here. Those powerful mantis shrimps and sea crabs running around were still explainable, as they were more or less the combat form of sirens, but the buckets and sea urchins rolling around on the ground could only be explained as the queen's guards being bored and coming up with new tricks. Hao Ren even saw a huge anchor swaggering and "walking" in the palace corridor. He was dumbfounded, and Shakira kindly explained: "... This is the anchor of the Titanic. She originally planned to transform the entire Titanic, but later found that the palace couldn't hold it..."

At this time, the anchor had already jumped in front of Hao Ren. This "steel" shook in place, and with a crash, it turned into another acquaintance: Soma.

Also a siren he met during the last incident…

"Ah, Hao Ren, long time no see!" Soma greeted Hao Ren happily, and solemnly introduced her current situation, "I am now the queen's guard. The queen is inside, but she is busy hosting a banquet and can't come out, so let me take you there."

Hao Ren followed Soma in a daze. After arriving at a hall, he realized what the other party meant by "banquet." It turned out that there were also small-scale celebrations here. Various humanoid and non-humanoid sirens (mostly nobles and officials) were happily holding gatherings here. Nangong Wuyue stretched her neck and looked around, looking for the siren queen, but she couldn't find her for a long time: "Where's the queen? Did she transform too?"

Soma pointed to a corner of the venue: "She's over there! She's coming!"

Hao Ren looked in the direction the other party was pointing, and even in the water, his cold sweat immediately flowed into his shoes: because he clearly saw a torpedo swaying towards him!

"Holy crap!" Lily was immediately frightened by this scene, and even her dialect came out, "There's a torpedo!!"

As soon as she finished speaking, the torpedo had stopped steadily in front of Hao Ren, and then exploded into a cloud of water mist on the spot. Katrina, the siren queen, walked out of the water mist. The siren queen was also startled by Lily, and also shouted, "Where, where, where's the torpedo?!"

"Weren't you just one!" Hao Ren's cold sweat finally subsided a little, but then it came out again, "You've transformed too much, haven't you!?"

"Oh, you were talking about me," Katrina realized, she smiled and shook her long snake tail, "The queen always has to have some unique features. I wanted to be more creative than others."

Hao Ren was speechless: "..."

"It's been a long time," Katrina didn't feel anything was wrong, she just smiled gently and dignifiedly, her eyes lingered on Hao Ren and his party one by one, "Elsa has come twice during this time."

Hao Ren looked at the siren queen with a strange expression, not because there was anything abnormal about her current state, but on the contrary, it was too normal: Her Majesty the Queen became dignified and elegant in the blink of an eye, and her words and deeds were full of temperament and momentum. You would never have imagined that she would have transformed herself into a torpedo to scare people a minute ago… No one can match this degree of change, right?

A sentence flashed in his mind: Sirens are indeed made of water…

At this moment, Katrina saw that Hao Ren didn't say anything, so she took the initiative to speak: "You came so suddenly, there must be something big going on, right?"

"Oh right, we have serious business to do," Hao Ren finally reacted, patted his head, "As soon as I came, I encountered your unprecedented and unique festival, and it almost confused me... Can we find a quieter place to talk?"

Katrina nodded: "Follow me."

Hao Ren followed the siren queen, but he soon noticed that Lily's eyes were always looking around, and Doudou next to him was also circling around excitedly, so he waved to the others: "If you're not interested, just play outside, just don't mess around."

As soon as these words came out, everyone except Vivian disappeared—sure enough, they didn't want to go to the meeting…

The Nangong family of four ran to communicate with the sirens, Lily ran to find something that could be added to her "Lily's Treasure", and Gun, full of happiness, floated in this paradise full of fishy fragrance. The whole cat seemed to have smelled catnip and became energetic. The little mermaid Doudou scurried around the hall like a happy bullet, as if she had returned to her hometown. Seeing this situation, Hao Ren called out to Nangong Wuyue from afar: "Wuyue! Help take care of Doudou, don't let her get lost!"

Then he turned to Vivian: "Aren't you going to follow?"

Vivian rolled her eyes: "Your brain tends to short-circuit when you talk, I'm going with you to keep things in order."

Hao Ren was speechless again: "..."

The three came to a lounge next to the hall. Katrina saw the serious expression on Hao Ren's face, so she dismissed all the maids and guards here, and then asked, "What happened?"

"It's related to your home planet," Hao Ren nodded, "Well, don't be nervous, nothing happened to your planet, something happened to a group of unlucky exiles—I rescued another group of people a while ago..."

Then Hao Ren told Katrina about what happened in the Dream Plane, and concealed the overly complicated background and information about the artifact. The siren queen listened carefully, only occasionally asking a few questions—about the shape and principle of those exile arks, she seemed very interested in this. After Hao Ren finished speaking, she blinked: "That is to say, there is a group of aliens who, like us, also suffered an ecological disaster and fled their homes, and now their exile arks are running out of food and must find a planet to dock, and the siren mother planet Aioi is the most suitable place for them to land that you know of?"

"To be honest, if I had to find one, I could find alternatives. My drone swarm has discovered some planets that can barely allow them to survive, but those planets either have residual Source Blood contamination or have harsh environments. After the arks barely land there, they will lose a lot of population," Hao Ren looked into Katrina's eyes, "Aioi is the only planet that doesn't need any transformation to be habitable, and my drone swarm can protect that place."

Katrina frowned and pondered.