Chapter 68
After Shang Ke's injury was mostly healed, he can finally go into the sea outside of the marine building to freely play. However, he was currently very distressed due to the additional mission the system announced. He has no clue how to go about it.
He took note of the punctuation the system pointed out to him, in other words, what he needed to find wasn't really a mermaid or merman he was imagining. But this mission is even harder to do without a clear-cut target, for example, would finding a portrait or statue of a mermaid or merman work? Would finding a sunken ship named "Merfolk" work? He, a dolphin with a human soul, do he count?
TL Note: Merman/mermaid/merfolk, the combination of characters is 'fish' and 'man/person'
There are really too many things that can be tied with merfolk, like hell will know what will fit the requirement. Furthermore, while he does the mission, he has to heroically court death. If he first finds the target (instead of disaster finding him first), then does that mean he needs to create an opportunity for himself to court death?
Alas, life is full of ditches for people to fall into.
Shang Ke raised his head, his face full of deep contemplation as he observed the vast sea.
When Qin Yuan arrived, he happened to chance upon this scene of Flames who appeared to be in deep thought, flickering with a distressed light under the dusky light of sunset.
Qin Yuan suddenly thought of the fact that dolphins were animals that loved freedom, raising them in a limited space would make them feel unhappy. But if they let them have their freedom, then it was hard to make sure they were safe, furthermore, he also wasn't willing to part with them.
Shang Ke seem to sense Qin Yuan's arrival and immediately tossed his overly strange worries and quickly swam to him.
Qin Yuan rubbed his head, and softly asked, "Do you want to go out to the sea?"
Shang Ke's eyes shone brightly: You could see that I want to go out? As expected, we really are spiritually connected!
"Alright, as long as you promise me one condition, I will take you out to the sea." Qin Yuan used a discussion tone.
Tell me! Shang Ke raised one of his fin on shore and slapped the ground rhythmically while wearing a face of full attention and concentration.
Qin Yuan's line of sight uncontrollably landed on that slapping fin, "...It's like this, I will put a location device on your dorsal fin. Then I will get a submarine and a squad of combat divers and accompany you."
"Then, when you've played enough, come back home with us. What do you think?"
Completely no problem! You are my financial backer (or feeder), I will listen to you! Shang Ke shifted his head over and rubbed against his leg, a wide smile on his dolphin face.
"Hm, then that's set." Qin Yuan discovered for the first time that interacting with animals could be so simple, his Flames was really so smart and considerate!
Qin Yuan did as he said. He sent out three ships the very next day to arrange a good route and emergency measures, then he went out with Flames who was attached with a location device out to play in the sea.
Waves was left in the marine building as a type of insurance. As long as it was there, he did not need to worry about Flames swimming away for freedom without guilt.
Shang Ke followed Qin Yuan's speedboat and cheerfully charged into the vast sea. The pitiful little Waves was duped by a couple of sea turtles and lost the chance to go out into the sea for a breath of fresh air.
Shang Ke leaped through the air with countless droplets of water, exposing his graceful and beautiful body in the air.
Qin Yuan supported himself on the rails as he welcomed the sea breeze. He watched with a gentle gaze at Flames leaping, frolicking, darting around and rolling in the waves in an incomparably happy mood. It was like all of his worries were being carried away.
Qin Yuan did not notice that this scene of him taking Flames out for fun was caught by a ship nearby. After it was published online, all the attention that was placed on Flames acted as if they were shot with chicken blood and the website almost exploded.
【As expected of Director Qin, other people walk their dogs or cats, but he walks dolphins.】
【There is no one more free and excellent than him.】
【Director Qin, one person savoring a dish isn't right, dolphins belong to everyone!】
【Post above +1】
【+pi (3.14)!】
【Furthermore, my buddy who did the filming, can't you get a bit closer? We get such a rare chance to be so close to Flames but it was all wasted!】
【You think I don't want to? Director Qin is too OP, he arranged a corvette nearly. My boat just got closer and it was blocked by them!】
【Is it really that extreme?】
【It really is that extreme!】
【Then dive and get closer.】
【Hehe, are you taking the submarine and fully armed combat divers underwater as decorations?】
【...Really OP.】
【Corvette, submarine, combat divers. Director Qin probably spent at least two million taking Flames out. 】
【Rich!】
【So rich!】
【Golden rich!】
【I am willing to donate another million, and let a Qin someone know that not only he has the financial resources to provide for Flames!】
【Then I will give a small contribution of three hundred thousand.】
【As a poor man, I do not seek to raise Flames. I wonder if it's willing to provide for me instead?】
【If you were to turn into a female dolphin, it may give you a glance.】
【No, I heard that dolphins are bisexual, so even if you were a male, it might be possible to get Flame's favor.】
【That's wrong upstairs, dolphins don't even care about species. As long as they like it, even if it was a turtle, they will not care.】
【(⊙０⊙) I have been enlightened.】
【...So the meaning behind that is basically that Director Qin can become Flames' mating target?】
【......】
【......】
【......】
【I seem to have found out something incredible...】
The discussion online started to head in a strange direction forever. Qin Yuan was still unknown to the fact that he was already being treated by the people online as the first mating target Flames chosen, and was given the titled of "Empress". Following that train, there was a group of "concubines" waiting to snatch his seat.
Shang Ke played for a pit then submerged himself into the sea. He shouted several times in all directions and used echolocation to explore the situation in the vicinity. The hearing of a dolphin was far keener than sight by tenfolds. By the inverval of the echo, the sound frequency and so on, they can find out the dimensions of an object as well as the distance, direction and speed. Even if they were blindfolded, they can still move through the water unhindered.
Shang Ke wanted to use this way to search the area. If this world really has merfolks, then he should be able to find some traces of them. Even if he can't find any, he can use the sound to transmit information to some mermaid or merman.
In addition to this, shipwrecks, mermaid or merman objects along with any organisms that were similiar to them, they were all his serach targets. In short, he was not letting go of any chances.
Qin Yuan accompanied Shang Ke's search through the sea until dusk. He took a look at the sky color and whistled at the sea.
Not long after, Shang Ke emerged from the water.
Qin Yuan shouted, "Flames, let's go back."
Shang Ke leaped once and took the lead to swim in the direction of the marine building.
Although he did not find any clues toward finding merfolks, Shang Ke the chance to play
When they got back to the marine building, Shang Ke waited for Qin Yuan to get off the speedboat then swam up too him, swaying his head like he knew something mysterious.
When Qin Yuan walked over to him, he immediately opened his mouth and made "wuwu" sounds.
Looking at his contispated appearance, Qin Yuan squatted down and asked in concern, "What's wrong?"
Shang Ke placed his fin on his hand, then spat out something on his hand.
Qin Yuan stared down and found out that it was a simple and unadorned sapphire ring much to his astonishment.
Surprise flitted through his eyes and he looked back at Flames, "Where did this come from?"
He found it in the ocean of course, what do you think about using this as an engagement ring? Shang Ke's eyes curved happily as he stared at Qin Yuan.
The clogs in Qin Yun's mind clicked and he guessed the origin of the ring, he smiled and asked, "For me?"
Shang Ke nodded.
"Thank you." Qin Yuan took the ring and wore it directly on the ring finger of his left hand.
Shang Ke cheerfully whistled: Putting on the ring means you accept my proposal, you can't renege. In this life, I'm afraid I can't have a ring from you. In the next life, I wish you can fulfill that desire of mine.
Shang Ke's dark blue eyes were pure and sparkling like the precious stone on Qin Yuan's ring,
Qin Yuan's heart warmed, and he couldn't help but hug Shang Ke, landing a kiss on his snout.
This warm scene embellished by the sunset was caught on camera by a salior not too far away, forever fixed on that beautiful split second scene.
A couple days later, after the intense demand of the outside world, Qin Yuan finally decided to allow Flames and Waves to appear in front of the public. To prevent them from being agitated, Qin Yuan specifically chose a suitable body of water and limited the number of people to below fifty and allowing three reporters to enter.
As a national treasure level dolphin, Shang Ke had long been prepared for being observed by people so he did not care. At the same time, he felt that it was a great chance to allow Waves to adapt to an environment with a lot of many.
Under the guidiance of Qin Yuan, a group of people arrived at the pool Shang Ke and Waves were at.
A whistle sounded and the two dolphins leaped at the same time, passionately welcoming the visitors.
Everyone immediately squealed softly in excitement, followed by an intense wave of cameras going off.
The people on shore were observing the dolphins while the dolphins were observing the people on shore in return.
Shang Ke said to Waves, "Look at that person's fasion, so flowery and random, even us dolphins have better taste than that."
Waves looked at his own glossy and brilliant skin and deeply agreed.
"And that one, with hair like he has been striked by lightening, does he not know how to properly brush and tidy up his hair?"
Waves then looked up at Shang Ke's shiny head, imagined how he would look like with a single curly hair and immediately trembled.
A bald head was really the prettiest!
When Waves looked toward at the people on shore again, his eyes were full of sympathy.
"Ahhh, they are really too cute!" A girl couldn't help but screech.
Waves trembled and splashed back into the water, frightened by the screech. Shang Ke placated him and he finally emerged from the water again.
Qin Yuan's face did not change and he coldly reminded that girl, "Miss Wang, please do not loudly screech to avoid frightening the dolphins."
"Ah, sorry." The girl covered her mouth and said softly, "I was so excited I didn't control myself well."
Qin Yuan did not say anything else seeing her sincere manner.
Waves was a bit nervous toward this group of people's arrival at first, but under Shang Ke's guidiance, he played very happily. He made all sorts of cute expressions and movements, becoming more and more lively making everyone overjoyed. A lot of photographs were taken.
After visiting time was over, Qin Yuan prepareed to lead everyone everyone. But a child pulled his dad to a stop and make a racket about not wanting to leave. His dad softly scolded him, but the child immediately started to cry loudly.
Qin Yuan frowned, about to call for some people to deal with it only to see Flames suddenly swimming over and whistling at the child. While the child sobbed, he looked over at Flames.
Flames raised his tail and kicked a floating ball toward the child's feet, smiling at him.
The child stopped crying, looked toward his dad, but his dad looked at Qin Yuan. Qin Yuan nodded at him, and the child's dad picked up the ball and handed it to his son, telling him, "Give this ball back to Flames, then tell it bye bye."
The child held the ball and walked in front of Flames, carefully handing the ball back to it.
Flames moved closer and rubbed the child's hand, then balanced the ball and made a couple moves in the water. Finally, it even winked at the child with its left eye.
Everyone was thoroughly melted by cuteness. How could there be such a cute creature in this world? It was simply rule-breaking!
The child also happily laughed, his two small hands clapping together,
When his dad came over to pull him away, he did not cry and cause trouble anymore. He only waved his hand at Flames and followed after his dad relunctantly as they left.
Their first public appearance allowed Shang Ke and Waves to obtain a new wave of fans. Especially Flames' last action of making a child happy on its own moved everyone. They've obtained a new understanding of Flames' intelligence and kindness.
SnowTime: I realized its been a while since I've updated oops. I got my final grades back though /o/ three B and 2 A, I am now a Bsian (well, I've been one most of my life o3o). I'm doing much better nowadays /o/ my daily headaches are gone, it's amazing just what 4 sets of chiropractic can do to you.... and I undergone acupuncture once, it's also an interesting experience. So I'm slowly getting better hehehehe~~~
Time to get off my lazy ass.