Sunlight couldn’t penetrate the deep sea floor, and a huge pearl with a shimmering white light was nestled in a nest made of seaweed.

If one looked closely, you could see a small mermaid curled up in the translucent silver-white pearl. The mermaid looked the size of an eighteen- or nineteen-year-old boy. His eyes were tightly closed, and his delicate features could be faintly seen.

“Click, click, click—”

The mermaid egg shook slightly, and some debris fell. The pearl shell cracked open with a crack, and a pair of porcelain white hands vigorously pushed open the shell. The fingers of those hands had thin fins between them, and his elbows had soft silver-white fins.

It seemed that pushing the eggshell was too tiring, so the mermaid withdrew his hand, and there was no other movement for a long time.

I’m so tired… so hungry…

Mu Mou was nestled in his eggshell, his delicate white hands embracing his icy blue tail. His dark green eyes seemed to contain infinite vitality, and his thin eyelids were tinged with a faint red. His longing gaze was both pure and tempting.

The hunger made him very uncomfortable, making Mu Mou furrow his slender eyebrows in grievance.

[Didi, please complete the first step and break the shell.]

The system’s urging voice came from his head; the unique robotic voice was cold and inhuman. [You have entered the B-level copy, the Misty Fishing Village. The identity of the little master is one of the monsters in the fog—the bloodthirsty mermaid. The current copy has not been opened yet; the NPC is in place; please begin and complete the NPC task.]

Mu Mou: “…Oh, 001, I’m so hungry.”

He really wanted to eat.

System 001 went silent, followed by a high pitched sound: [… I * (muted)]】

Mu Mou sensed something was wrong and wanted to question him, but he didn’t have the energy. He just softly asked, “System, are you scolding me?”

The system was given to him by his fifth brother. His brother couldn’t stand him shouting ‘hungry’ every day; his family was poor, and there wasn’t much food to eat. So, his fifth brother simply gave him a system to come out and find food on his own.

But this system was too aggressive. When they first met, Mu Mou was scolded to tears.

Mu Mou had been nurtured and cared for since his birth. Apart from easily getting hungry, he was very well behaved, and his siblings also spoiled him.

Seeing Mu Mou shedding tears pitifully, Sixth Brother beat Fifth Brother up, and Fifth Brother had to modify the system again, giving him a brand new one.

[001: No, my dear little master, how dare I scold you? I love you so much.]

The drawn-out tone didn’t make Mu Mou feel love; rather, he had a very strange feeling. Mu Mou didn’t know there was a word called ‘passive-aggressiveness.’.

He relied on the spiritual energy of living beings to survive, among which humans were the most spiritual of all things, and the taste was both superior and delicious. Mu Mou was picky about food, and after tasting it once, he could no longer eat anything else.

Mu Mou rubbed his deflated belly and wagged his tail to look out at the broken eggshell but he found no one except for a very big eye.

He was very disappointed and shriveled back.

There was no food outside; he didn’t have the motivation to strive anymore.

Having such a precious master tired 001. It originally assisted high-level players, all of whom were ruthless people with high IQs and powerful combat power. Where had it ever seen such a little soft package?

Oh no, this wasn’t just a little soft package.

001 remembered what its master had said to him, and its data stream trembled. It used a soft voice to coax him, “Little master, please work harder; there will be food after you go out.”

What a disgusting tone.

001 was disgusted by himself.

Mu Mou also knew that there was a lot to eat in this world. If there was nothing here, he would go to another location to find it. He gathered all his strength and slammed it hard against the eggshell wall.

After finally making a hole that he could pass through, Mu Mou tentatively swam out.

His upper body was the body of a young man, well-proportioned and slender, with crystal-clear light blue scales covering below his waist. His beautiful tail swayed with a faint fluorescence, illuminating a small area of the sea.

Upon seeing a large pillar hanging in front of him, Mu Mou curiously circled around it. As he approached the back of the pillar, he saw a dense array of suction cups. Mu Mou let out an ignorant exclamation, “Wow!”

This wasn’t a pillar!

Mu Mou lifted his head and looked up. The terrifying figure of a huge octopus, which was ten stories high, was hidden in the darkness, with its massive tentacles floating in the sea.

001: !!!

This was a B-level monster!

In B-level copies, this was the existence of bosses.

Monsters and players were on opposite sides. 001 hadn’t yet adapted to his current NPC system, and his first reaction was to ask Mu Mou to run quickly.

However, it was already too late, and the little fool had no chance to escape. A thinner tentacle wrapped around his waist, and Mu Mou was led to the big octopus.

Mu Mou was just a newborn mermaid, with a long tail that was only three meters long. Compared to the giant octopus that was over thirty meters long, he was pitifully small.

001 immediately sounded a sharp alarm, ‘Don’t look, little fool, run!!’

There was also a class division among NPCs, and the law of the jungle was natural. In front of this boss-level monster, Mu Mou had no room for resistance.

[001, you’re so noisy.]

Mu Mou’s head ached from the sharp sound, and as soon as he finished speaking, the voice quieted down.

001 had already given up on this mission and was lying flat, waiting to go back.

Mu Mou tilted his head up and gazed at this colossal creature, his clear eyes devoid of any hint of fear.

He could keenly perceive the kindness of the giant octopus towards him. This was a big guy who wouldn’t hurt him, Mu Mou defined in his heart.

In this way, he became bolder and gently pushed the tentacle wrapped around his waist, “Loosen your grip, it’s not comfortable.”

001 was so angry with him, he even demanded it be gentle! Little fool, you’re so stupid!

To its surprise, the giant octopus actually loosened its tentacles and no longer made contact with Mu Mou’s waist. It was like a swimming ring, loosely wrapped around Mu Mou’s body.

This little mermaid was too small, and undercurrents sometimes appeared at the bottom of the sea. The big octopus was afraid that he would be swept away by the waves.

Mu Mou didn’t feel uncomfortable and was much happier. He had a long tail veil hanging from his tail, which swayed in the water and emitted a faint fluorescence, like a beautiful elf in the sea.

A hint of humanization flashed in the eyes of the giant octopus, indicating a strong obsession.

This was the mermaid it found; this was its mermaid.

Mu Mou wandered aimlessly for a while, with the big octopus following behind him, always using its tentacles to wrap around him. Mu Mou was accustomed to always being surrounded by big creatures and didn’t feel any discomfort.

But the big octopus always liked to get close to Mu Mou, and its multiple tentacles occasionally touched Mu Mou’s waist and some more sensitive parts. At this time, the little mermaid blushed and pushed away those soft octopus tentacles with suction cups.

Then he complained in a sticky tone, “Don’t poke my waist or get too close to me; it’s very uncomfortable.”

The big octopus didn’t listen and insisted on sticking with the little mermaid.

[I am Dana, you are my… my little mermaid.]

It obviously didn’t communicate frequently, and the communication of consciousness was always intermittent. Mu Mou was in a hurry to find food. “I’m not. I’m very hungry now. I need to find food.”

[Are you… hungry?]

Dana had never kept a mermaid, and Mu Mou was found by it from the depths of the sea. It thought that the little mermaid was naturally lively when swimming around, but little did it know that he was hungry and searching for food everywhere.

It left the little one hungry, which made Dana feel very guilty. With a flick of its tentacles, it grabbed a pale pink jellyfish and pushed it to Mu Mou.

Mu Mou leaned in and noticed that the pink body of the jellyfish had blue and purple patterns, which looked very eerie.

Mu Mou had extremely high demands for food, and as long as it didn’t fit his taste buds, he refused to eat it even when starving.

“I don’t want to eat this,” Mu Mou wagged his tail and moved away from the strange jellyfish, pointing to the water surface. “I’m going up to find something to eat, big guy. You can’t go; you’ll be stranded.”

“I’ll come back as soon as I find something to eat.”

Perhaps it was because this big octopus was the first creature that Mu Mou saw after hatching in this world, with the mentality of a chick, Mu Mou really enjoyed being with it.

Of course, the premise was that it didn’t stick to him all the time.

Dana couldn’t understand his complicated words; he only knew that its little mermaid didn’t value its food and needed to hunt alone.

The humans on the sea were weak, and even the weakest jellyfish in the sea could kill them.

Dana wasn’t worried about Mu Mou’s safety, but he insisted on raising Mu Mou. [I will… give you the best…]

The message it sent made Mu Mou stunned. He was about to say that he didn’t like seafood, but Dana had already swam away.

Mu Mou could no longer see Dana’s figure and naturally couldn’t stop it.

001 witnessed the whole process, and the system was extremely confused. “Little master, did you understand what the monster was saying? It seems like it really likes feeding you.”

Mu Mou had already started to swim upstream towards the sea surface. When he heard the system refer to the giant octopus as a monster, he pursed his lips unhappily and retorted, “It’s not a monster; it’s a container of life. Everyone’s the same.”

001: “I am not; I am data composed of 0s and 1s, without life. I am different from you.”

Its sense of superiority that came from uniqueness was clearly audible.

Mu Mou: “…”

Why did he always feel that there was something weird about this system? It was as if the person on the other side was a little boy who hadn’t passed the second semester of middle school.

“Um… I’m tired, little master. I’ll go to sleep first. Remember to call me if you need anything.”

How could a system get sleepy? Mu Mou was stunned. Did it think he was stupid?

The scenery in the shallow sea area far surpassed that of the deep sea, where colorful small fish swam among the coral, and the blue seawater was clearly visible.

Several small blue fish gathered around Mu Mou, playing among his floating tail veil, making him itch.

Mu Mou played with them for a while and continued swimming towards the sea.

At this moment, the sunshine on the sea surface was just right, and the brilliant light shone on the sea surface with sparkling waves.

Mu Mou emerged from the water, his delicate features exposed to the sunlight. Water droplets caressed his delicate skin, flowing through his delicate collarbone, and finally reluctantly returning to the sea.

At a glance, Mu Mou saw the land not far away, and two cute little pear-shaped vortices appeared on his face.as he smiled. A small boat moved, and he immediately noticed it next to the small island.

There, there’s food!

Mu Mou approached and saw three fishermen unloading their catch on the shore from afar. He cautiously retreated to the surface of the water again and immediately hid behind the rocks when he reached the shore, sticking out his head to look outside.

The three fishermen had been fishing on the sea surface for a long time, and their skin was tanned by the high temperature. Mu Mou compared the tall and burly fishermen with himself and slightly shrank.

He couldn’t beat them.

Mu Mou sadly concluded that he probably would suffer even when trying to drag someone down.

Mu Mou was extremely frustrated. Even though the delicious food was right in front of him and he was still hungry, he couldn’t handle them. It was just too painful.

The little mermaid looked at the fishermen with his mouth watering but timidly dared not approach. After waiting for someone to be alone, he gathered a little bit of courage and prepared to beg for food.

Mu Mou slowly swam out from behind the reef, his hands still gripping the rock in fear, creating a strong color impact between the black stones and his fair hands.

The slightly rising waves swayed his tail, then a warm body suddenly covered Mu Mu’s back. Before he could even shout in panic, his mouth was covered by a large hand.

A low and pleasant voice echoed in Mu Mou’s ear, “Hmm? Look what I caught, a lonely little mermaid.”

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i picked this up, sooo lessssgo 🎉