MCL CH52

Chapter 52: You know, there’s a kind of thing…

Lin Xi automatically filtered out the endless chatter in his mind and listened to the singing in his ears: “He seems to be telling me that if I don’t go to him, he will personally come here.”

[Don’t fall for it! Haven’t you heard the saying, a siren’s mouth is a deceiving ghost!]
[Among the water-type contaminants, this shameless race occupies a high status with the lowest combat power, spending all day playing with people’s hearts.]
[Don’t believe Him, believe Him and you’re done for!]

“Oh, is that so?” Lin Xi asked, “But why do I feel that your mouth isn’t that reliable either?”

[…………]

In this brief silence, Lin Xi smiled: “I can see that you really don’t want to meet them. As the King of contaminants, if I were you, and had fallen to this state, I would have probably died of shame long ago.”

[…Why the personal attacks?]

Lin Xi didn’t continue with the cold sarcasm. He turned to look at the closed cabin door, seemingly in thought.

After a moment, he slowly lowered his eyelids: “But since I’m already here, avoiding it is not my style. And if he really finds this place, with so many people around, it really won’t be a good thing.”

[Those things are not easy to deal with. You’ll regret it,] Calamity struggled, not giving up.

“Then we’ll talk about it when I regret it.”

Lin Xi silently replied in his heart. He turned his head to speak and found that Yan Xingzhou had been staring at him intently for some time. His words paused, “You…”

The rest of his sentence was cut off by Yan Xingzhou’s simple and clear words: “I’m going with you.”

“…”

Lin Xi didn’t expect that just a glance at the cabin door would let this man guess his thoughts. After a moment of silence, he said, “Now is not a suitable time for you to show your face.”

However, Yan Xingzhou clearly had no intention of arguing with him. He repeated the same sentence: “I’m going with you.”

Lin Xi looked up at the man in front of him. Faced with this man’s rare display of pestering, he didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.

From Calamity’s description, he could already roughly determine the attributes of the contaminant in this rift. And since the other party knew about his symbiosis with Calamity, it was obviously not suitable for other people to be around.

However…

Lin Xi’s eyebrows raised slightly, a hint of a smile appearing in his eyes: “Then let’s go together.”

Although up until now, the two of them hadn’t had any discussion about the reason for his resurrection, and Yan Xingzhou still didn’t know about Calamity’s existence, strictly speaking, this wasn’t something worth deliberately hiding.

This man was not “other people.”

At this point, he would know the truth sooner or later. No matter what choice he made then, Lin Xi felt that he could accept it with pleasure.

The fact that the two of them proposed to leave the aircraft at this time made everyone else very confused.

Jiang Chu had just watched Lin Xi send those people to their deaths to test the waters. At this moment, his expression was even more complicated: “Those people haven’t come back yet. I’m afraid it’s more bad news than good. If we go out now…”

“Yes, it’s no different from courting death.”

Lin Xi smiled and patted Jiang Chu’s shoulder, “So if even we don’t come back, Captain Jiang, you are our last hope. Good luck.”

Jiang Chu: “…”

What the hell, good luck!

He looked at Yan Xingzhou next to him: “Then he also…”

Yan Xingzhou: “I am his faithful follower. We should share life and death.”

Lin Xi: “Ahem, just as he said, that’s right.”

You’re getting a bit too into character, President Yan.

“…”

It was truly the first time Jiang Chu had seen someone treat life and death so lightly, whether it was towards the previous people or towards themselves. It could be called ruthless.

After a thousand words, Jiang Chu finally only said one sentence: “We’ll wait for you to come back.”

“Thank you.”

Lin Xi looked at Jiang Chu with some surprise. After all, he had received a blessing from a chance acquaintance, and was in a good mood. He waved his hand, “See you if fate allows.”

The moment the cabin door opened again, a strong, cold wind howled in from outside.

Lin Xi casually tightened his clothes. Just as he was about to jump down, he felt a hand quietly wrap around his waist.

By the time he came to his senses, he was already in Yan Xingzhou’s arms. Facing the bone-chilling gusts of wind, he jumped down with incomparable neatness.

Listening to the wind whistling by his ears, Lin Xi couldn’t help but laugh: “President Yan, you were so serious just now, you almost made me think you really wanted to die with me at any time. You almost made me feel touched for a moment.”

“How do you know I wasn’t being serious?”

A muffled voice came from the chest pressed against him, making Lin Xi pause for a moment when it reached his ears.

By the time he reacted, the two had already landed. Yan Xingzhou protected him and made a beautiful soft landing. Only the splashing water around them slightly wet the corners of their clothes.

Lin Xi quickly scanned the surroundings.

When he threw the hijacker out of the plane just now, he had only seen an endless expanse of blue. Only from the distinct sound of the heavy object landing could he judge that this was not simply a water world.

And now it was indeed proven.

The seemingly endless surface of the sea, only upon landing would one discover that there was a transparent film floating underneath, covered by a thin layer of water. Stepping on it felt like being on a soft colloid.

To be honest, Lin Xi found the feeling underfoot somewhat disgusting.

This thin film swayed silently with the water, giving a sticky feeling, as if something alive was sucking on the soles of his shoes, squirming silently.

With just a glance around, Lin Xi had already chosen a direction and started walking.

The singing came from that direction. With every step closer, it felt like the weight increased.

A thin mist enveloped the endless water surface, obscuring the view in the distance, making it seem as if they were in a blue world with no end.

Finally, a towering shadow came into view.

Thorns growing out of the water were savagely intertwined, like a high tower standing in the middle of the water. The source of the song was sitting on a round tray in the center. Golden, wavy hair cascaded down like a waterfall, making the extremely exquisite face even more filled with an androgynous beauty. In front of Him, the thin film in the water seemed to not exist at all. His lower body was completely immersed in the water. Only upon getting closer did they realize that this siren had no feet. His lower body was a huge fish tail that radiated a brilliant luster, swaying elegantly with the music He played.

Until the two of them got close, the siren seemed to still be immersed in his own beautiful performance, which made Lin Xi look at this face with renewed interest.

As everyone knew, contaminants above A-level were basically races that had already developed intelligence. Among the things he had dealt with in the past, there were not a few that were very similar to humans. However, this was indeed the first time he had come into contact with the siren race. According to Calamity’s description, they could probably be evaluated as a flashy vase. The description “vase” was still up for debate, but the point of being “flashy” was indeed played to the extreme.

“You like this type?”

A sudden voice from behind pulled Lin Xi back to his senses. He looked back and saw Yan Xingzhou staring at him intently. He slowly blinked and smiled, “No, I prefer your type.”

As expected, the man’s serious face softened slightly.

It’s unknown whether this conversation disturbed the siren’s mood, but the music around them suddenly stopped.

When he looked over, they discovered that those crystal-clear eyes had no pupils, like beautiful but lifeless glass balls. Even the voice that reached their ears was distant, as if floating from an endless distance: “You’ve come.”

[The siren race firmly believes that their voices are made only for singing, so they refuse to speak, an act that could damage their vocal cords.]

The voice in his head started its commentary at the right time, [That’s right, this pretentious race is just that fussy and melodramatic.]

“…”

Lin Xi pondered for a moment and finally gave up on using his thoughts to communicate with the number two contaminant in front of him. Instead, he chose to speak directly, “Yes, I’ve come.”

This conversation seemed to already acknowledge some kind of tacit understanding between him and the contaminant.

When he agreed to let Yan Xingzhou come along, Lin Xi was already prepared to face any possible outcome. Therefore, under Yan Xingzhou’s gaze, his expression showed no trace of fluctuation.

The siren stared at him fixedly. His expressionless face seemed to reveal a trace of dissatisfaction: “You brought a human along.”

Lin Xi smiled slightly: “Don’t worry, he won’t affect our upcoming communication.”

He didn’t look back, but even so, he could guess that Yan Xingzhou’s brows were undoubtedly furrowed even tighter at this moment.

“Human,” “we,” no matter which term was used, it sounded truly full of discordance and strangeness.

Lin Xi suppressed the urge to facepalm and had already sighed silently in his heart.

No matter how you looked at it, after returning from here, there would probably be a lot of explaining to do.

Just as he was thinking, he heard the siren let out a low laugh: “Indeed, it won’t affect anything. After all, like the people just now, humans only have one outcome.”

The people just now were undoubtedly the group he had thrown off the plane.

The fact that they hadn’t returned yet basically meant he had already guessed the outcome, but the siren’s words still made Lin Xi sense something: “Don’t do anything meaningless.”

“You seem to care about him quite a bit.”

The siren’s voice floated by his ear, near and far, a soft, melodious smile. “Perfect. As a first meeting gift, to show my friendship, I’ll give you a present.”

Lin Xi didn’t answer.

His intuition told him that this “present” was not a good thing.

Then, he saw the siren’s lips curve up into a silent smile: “You know, there’s a kind of thing called ‘charm water’?”

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