Quick Transmigration: Why did you provoke him? He's love-struck!

Chapter 372 The Bride of the Sea God (31)

It was just a perfectly normal greeting, but combined with Wei Shucheng's blatant act of bringing Asaya to her house before it was even dark, Yan Zhen sensed a threat in it.

Nolan also sensed the danger, and his aura became restless.

Yan Zhen patted his hand to comfort him, then said to the man and fish in the backyard, "Let's talk in the living room. It's too hot. Nolan doesn't like to stay outside."

Upon hearing this, Asaya looked up and stared intently at her.

Upon entering the living room, Yan Zhen took out three bottles of ice water from the refrigerator, giving one to Asaya and one to Wei Shucheng, and unscrewing the other bottle and placing it in front of Nolan.

"Is Si Lan not home?" Yan Zhen asked.

Otherwise, how could Assaya have dared to come out before the sun had even set?

Wei Shucheng said, "She went on a business trip."

"Judging from how familiar you two are with this place, you don't seem like first-time offenders. You've been taking Asaya out without Si Lan's knowledge quite a bit, haven't you?"

Wei Shucheng smiled and said, "Yes, we just need to change the home security camera settings, and Si Lan won't find out."

Yan Zhen narrowed his eyes, feeling a lingering fear for Si Lan.

The person she trusted most and the most dangerous creature conspired to deceive her for so long; if they wanted to kill her quickly and easily, she would have been dead eight hundred times over by now.

“Asaya told me that Nolan told you our whole plan.” Wei Shucheng leaned back in his chair, his expression calm, showing no panic at the discovery of his fatal secret. “You didn’t tell Si Lan, nor did you report me to the relevant authorities. What were you planning?”

Yan Zhen pondered for a moment and said sincerely, "I don't want to hurt you and Asaya. If possible, I hope to resolve this matter in a gentle way."

Wei Shucheng laughed upon hearing this: "Si Lan has mentioned you to me more than once, saying that you are simple, kind, innocent, and always have an overly optimistic attitude towards things... She understands you very well, and you are indeed very innocent."

Yan Zhen wasn't surprised that Wei Shucheng refused. She continued to look at him with utmost sincerity and said, "But if you do this, do you know how many innocent people will lose their lives once the virus spreads?"

"Innocent? Are humans innocent?"

Meeting his gaze, Yan Zhen nodded: "The consumer group for mermaid products has always been high-income people; low-income people simply can't afford them."

The crimes stemming from the mermaid industry have nothing to do with them, but when the virus spreads, these low-income groups are the first to suffer. How can they not be considered innocent?

"It seems you are well aware of the Si family's nature of hunting killer mermaids." Wei Shucheng sneered. "Where were you all this time? Now you're suddenly showing kindness and trying to discuss resolving the issue with me in a 'gentle way,' is it because our revenge plan has made you feel threatened?"

“I’m only twenty years old, still a student.” Yan Zhen showed a helpless expression. “Even now, I have no access to the core management of the Si family. And you know Si Lan’s personality. She’s so domineering. Even if I raise objections, she won’t allow me to interfere. In the past, I was powerless to do anything about these things.”

"Your surname is Si, and you enjoy the benefits brought by the Si family's capture of killer mermaids. As a beneficiary, do you think you can absolve yourself of all responsibility with just a statement of powerlessness?"

Wei Shucheng became agitated, his refined demeanor vanishing considerably. He spoke with fervor, "What's the difference between you and Si Lan! You both deserve to die!"

Yan Zhen wasn't angry when he heard this. Instead, he revealed a meaningful expression: "Si Lan and I deserve to die—so Wei Shucheng, you cooperated with the merfolk to spread the virus to humans, with the aim of killing the Si family?"

Wei Shucheng was stunned for a moment, then quickly realized that he had been unknowingly drawn into Yan Zhen's emotions and had fallen into her trap.

"The Si family is the culprit. I hope you get your comeuppance. Is that so hard to understand?"

“You want us to suffer retribution, and you want all of humanity to suffer retribution. These are two different things,” Yan Zhen said. “The former proves that you have selfish motives, while the latter proves that you have great love in your heart and are standing up for the merfolk.”

Wei Shucheng snorted coldly: "I do have selfish motives. I hope the Si family will be punished. This is not a secret among the merfolk, and it does not conflict with our plan."

Yan Zhen shook his head: "Your selfish motives are indeed no secret, but you didn't tell the merfolk the truth."

At this point, Yan Zhen looked at Asaya: "The merfolk have been cooperating with Wei Shucheng for eight years. He provided you with all the information about the human world, right?"

Asaya clearly didn't want to have any further dealings with her, and gave her a cold glance upon hearing this: "So what if I'm right?"

"Did he tell you that once the plan begins, the merfolk will be wiped out? It's a doomed situation that the merfolk are destined to fail and there's no turning back?"

Asaya was taken aback, and he immediately turned to look at Wei Shucheng.

Wei Shucheng's expression changed slightly, and he quickly said to Asaya, "Don't listen to her nonsense! She's trying to sow discord."

“I did try to sow discord among you, but you know very well whether I was lying or not,” Yan Zhen said. “I don’t know what wrong message you gave the merfolk to make them think that a virus could wipe out hundreds of billions of humans.”

But Wei Shucheng, you must know that with the current development of human technology and medicine, no matter how fierce this virus is at the beginning, it will take at least one or two years, or even one or two decades, for humanity to find a way to fight it and find out the culprit.

Whether it's to retaliate against the merfolk or to prevent the virus from spreading again, humans will exterminate them, wipe them out of this planet! Is this what you call helping them 'take revenge'? Do the merfolk even know what you're planning?"

Wei Shucheng: "...You're talking nonsense!!!"

Asaya seemed to have taken Yan Zhen's words to heart, but he didn't believe them entirely. His eyes kept darting between Wei Shucheng, whose gaze was firm and who was clearly somewhat guilty.

Seeing this, Nolan spoke up to defend Yan Zhen: "Asya, she's not lying!"

Asaya tilted her head to look at him: "Are you so sure?"

"She never lies! If she says she'll open a sea urchin for me, she will!"

Asaya: "..."

He was silent for a moment, then stared intently at Wei Shucheng: "Between you and her, who's lying?"

Wei Shucheng said without hesitation, "Of course it's her. I'm on the side of the merfolk."

"Then dare you swear on my sister's name that you really didn't lie to me, didn't lie to the entire merfolk?"

Wei Shucheng's face turned deathly pale instantly.

His lips were slightly parted, but he couldn't utter a single word.

Asaya wasn't stupid; seeing his expression, he immediately realized that Wei Shucheng was the one lying.

He suddenly stood up and looked down at Wei Shucheng.

The next moment, the sharp purple scales on the outside of his wrist burst open, and he rushed towards Wei Shucheng.