"We're friends, aren't we?" Mu Qingyun looked back into those translucent purple eyes and said lightly, "At the moment the deal was done, I thought we already were friends."
"Is that so?" Kazel snorted unhappily at her words. "Then why isn't there a room for me in your house?"
Hmm?
Mu Qingyun raised an eyebrow in puzzlement. "Aren't you living in the sea?"
As soon as she said this, she realized her slip-up. The reason she could strike that deal with Kazel was because of the pollution underwater.
But that wasn't right — hadn't Kazel been living in the sea all along?
Then why did he say the underwater pollution caused their merfolk to lose their home?
Noticing Mu Qingyun's confused gaze, Kazel smiled slightly. "I can live there temporarily, but not permanently. I was originally planning to go find the princess."
So that was it.
She nodded, looked up at Kazel's slender human legs, measured his height, then hesitated and said, "How about you live in the middle section?"
After a pause, she added, "You only sleep there at night anyway, and don't take up space during the day."
Kazel shook his head. "No sincerity."
Tch, such a hassle.
She took a deep breath. "Then don't live here."
But Kazel acted as if he hadn't heard her. He lowered his gaze to think for a moment, then raised his chin with a tsundere attitude. "Fine, though you're insincere, since you think I'm a friend, I'll graciously stay for a while."
Mu Qingyun was speechless.Heh, just try not staying.
"Go pull some seaweed for me." She pushed Kazel and sat down at the shore.
"Alright." Kazel sighed helplessly as his legs instantly transformed into a fish tail. With a powerful leap, he dove deep into the sea.
After waiting for a while on the shore, Kazel returned with seaweed.
"Here."
He tossed all the seaweed onto the shore, his tail flicking slightly, brushing Mu Qingyun's arm, which she had dipped in the water.
So cool, so smooth.
The sensation lasted only a moment before the beautiful fish tail moved away. Her eyes lingered on Kazel's tail, recalling the feeling, narrowing slightly.
It felt much like fish scales, except Kazel's tail was truly beautiful — just looking at it made one want to touch it.
[Did Mu Qingyun say she wanted to weave a mat with this seaweed? I didn't hear wrong, right?]
[Yeah, honestly, I'm curious too. Our planet basically has no plants; what we have are mostly ornamental. I really want to see how Mu Qingyun does it.]
[I guess it's similar to how she wove things before.]
Using a torch to dry the seaweed, she pinched the dried strands and began weaving right there.
Kazel watched for a while as she made a basket with the seaweed. After finishing the basket, she laid a few seaweed strands on the ground and started weaving a mat.
Although this era had deep-sea warships capable of going to depths she could never imagine, people did not bother to harvest deep-sea seaweed because it was inedible.
As for the deep-sea merfolk and beastmen who originally lived underwater, they lost their habitat due to water pollution caused by people on land, so naturally they would not harvest seaweed.
Without raw materials for weaving and with the advancement of modern technology, the weaving techniques from her era had long since been lost.
"Your weaving method is a bit different." Kazel picked up the basket and looked at it, then glanced down at the mat she was weaving. "But the overall technique seems similar."
"Yeah, the weaving technique only varies slightly. It's mainly the patterns that differ." Mu Qingyun waved him over. "Come take a look."
"Okay."
Kazel obediently came over like a good student, watching carefully as she wove different patterns with varied techniques.
[Wow, Kazel's being so good behaved, suddenly not so arrogant.]
[Haha, I really like how Kazel and Mu Qingyun interact. I don't ship, but they would make great friends.]
[Yes yes, their vibe is just perfect.]
[Ahem, though the scene is beautiful, I still wait for the big romance later.]
After weaving a bunch of items, Mu Qingyun took some herself and had Kazel take some as well. They carried a good load back to the house.
Before they could enter, however, they ran into an unexpected visitor.
The moment Bai Feifei saw Mu Qingyun, she breathed a sigh of relief.
When she returned to the cave, all the sleeping bags that had been there were gone. Luckily, her livestream had some fans who didn't scold her, and following their hints, she finally found Mu Qingyun.
"Where are your sleeping bags? I just went back to the cave and they're all gone."
Bai Feifei instinctively tried to put on an arrogant posture, but recalling Mu Xueyao's earlier words, she toned down her voice.
"The house is done. We moved somewhere else." Mu Qingyun looked at Bai Feifei with a headache. This woman was really troublesome.
"Oh, what's that in your hand? Is that a plant? Why are there plants on the island? I'll go back to the house with you guys later. Is Kazel with you?"
Bai Feifei's chatter was like a machine gun, relentlessly firing questions, making Mu Qingyun frown.
Where to start answering first?
Her brows furrowed tighter and tighter, her irritation growing. She looked coldly up — luckily Kazel stepped in just in time to save her.
"Why come here instead of to the princess's place?" Kazel raised an eyebrow, looking at Bai Feifei suspiciously.
Bai Feifei glanced at Kazel, hesitating whether to answer. She was only able to cling to Mu Qingyun because she had Kazel to threaten with.
If she said, what would happen to her?
After a moment of thought, she smiled at Kazel, "I had a fight with Deng Yijie, so I didn't want to go back."
"Not wanting to go back, then why come find Mu Qingyun?" Kazel raised an eyebrow again. Bai Feifei's answer was almost useless; her question remained unanswered.
"Let's go." Mu Qingyun gave Bai Feifei a cold glance, then carried her things and walked straight ahead.
She actually wanted to keep Bai Feifei, not trusting her reason and suspecting there was some purpose behind her coming.
She decided to play along — maybe she could get something unexpected out of this.