On the beach of Huangxing, Ino was carrying a small bucket, stepping on the soft white sand with his feet, childishly drawing circles with his toes and digging in the sand.

He also held a simple small wooden shovel in his hand, which Yue Zhanchi had given him to dig out crabs.

If circumstances didn't allow it, he might treat this as a vacation and build a castle directly on the beach.

Seeing his excited appearance, Yue Zhan couldn't help but be infected. He put aside some of his worries about the future and asked with a smile in his eyes: "Have you never played before, Your Highness?"

Ino stepped on the beach and made a shallow puddle. He nodded and said, "I haven't played much."

When he was very young, he had to study with the famous teachers and professors arranged for him by Queen Delan and his grandfather, and had little time to go out to play. Later, when the queen passed away, the emperor didn't care much about him, so he had even fewer opportunities to go out to play in the palace.

Already.

Yue Zhan could probably guess some of the reasons, so he couldn't help but soften his voice and asked: "Is it fun?"

"It's fun... uh." Ino finally realized that he seemed to have gotten a little carried away.

Is it time to play now?

He hurriedly retracted his feet from stepping on the puddles, his round and lovely toes grasping the sand guiltily, and lied seriously and seriously: "Actually... I was surveying the terrain..."

As he spoke, he said "hmm" twice, nodded, put his hands behind his back, walked forward like a Feng Shui master, and said seriously: "I'm looking for crabs somewhere."

Yue Zhan: "..."

After taking the eight-figure step for a while, Ino stretched out his foot, made a half-circle in vain, and made up with his eyes open: "According to the terrain, there must be crabs in this area..."

Yue Zhan couldn't help but laugh, and deliberately did not expose it, saying: "Okay, then Your Highness will dig in this area."

After saying that, fearing that he might not be safe if he couldn't find any crabs and ran elsewhere, he jumped over the stack and warned him again: "It doesn't matter if you can't find any crabs. Don't run around."

He had no intention of really letting the little prince be responsible for finding food. After all, the little prince had no experience in surviving in the wild, so he could just leave this kind of thing to him.

Ino, however, had an expression on his face that said, "Don't look down on me." He said, "I can definitely dig it. I'll dig a bucket."

Yue Zhan nodded to coax him.

The two quickly started working, carrying the whittled wooden thorns over the stack, looking for fish on the shallow beach. Ino, carrying a bucket and a shovel, looked for crabs on the beach with a serious look on his face.

Ino seems to be particularly talented when it comes to digging up small crabs, and he can dig them accurately every time. This may be related to the fact that he is a mermaid, and he has a keen insight into aquatic food, and his intuition is particularly accurate.

After a while, he dug up half a bucket of crabs and even found a nest of turtle eggs.

Considering that it is not easy for a turtle to lay a nest of eggs, and even fewer turtles can successfully hatch hatchlings, he buried the sand back again, thinking to himself: It is better not to let people die of offspring.

As for the little crabs in the bucket, of course they need to be steamed. Crabs can give birth to many at one time. If he eats a few, he won't be able to annihilate his descendants.

When he was almost done digging, he looked up at Yue Zhan, only to see that Yue Zhan's hand was still empty except for a wooden thorn.

Ino: "..."

How dare he work for most of the day, but the other party didn't catch a single fish?

Yue Zhan was also very depressed. It wasn't that his fishing skills were not good, but that he walked from east to west along the shoal, and then from west to east. He didn't even see a fish, not even a fry as big as a fingernail.

nothing.

Seeing that the little prince was almost digging a bucket full of crabs, he couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

This is unscientific! Yue Zhan thought to himself, could it be that there are no fish in this sea area?

Otherwise, how could he not meet the fish?

At this time, Ino was already carrying a small bucket, leaving wet footprints, and ran over.

"What's wrong?" He asked strangely, with sweat dripping from the tip of his nose, raising his fair neck.

Yue Zhan didn't want to admit that he couldn't catch fish, so he analyzed it seriously: "There may be no fish in this sea area. Your Highness, let's go look elsewhere."

"There are no fish?" Ino looked confused and thought, how could there be no? There are crabs and turtles, and the ecology is obviously similar to other habitable planets.

He thought for a moment, then handed the shovel and bucket directly to Yue Zhan and said, "You carry them over first."

Yue Zhan was carrying a bucket and a shovel with a puzzled look on his face.

Ino said seriously: "I'm going to start transforming."

Yue Zhan: "???" The little prince got hit twice again?

"Just do it if I ask you to." Ino said politely.

Thinking of what he was going to do next, his ears turned a little red, and he directly put his hand on Yue Zhan's arm and pushed him around.

Yue Zhan looked confused, but still did it.

After he turned around, Ino took off his pants, turned into a mermaid, and dove into the sea.

When Yuezhan realized what he was doing, he was already waving his hands in the waves and shouting: "Help me take care of my clothes."

"Wait!" Yuezhan quickly put down the keg and chased forward.

This is a desolate star, and nowhere has been explored. Who knows if the sea is safe or what kind of creatures are there?

Ino didn't seem to hear it. As soon as he turned around, the fish's tail drew a beautiful arc on the sea surface and quickly disappeared.

Yue Zhan's heart suddenly felt empty, as if he was watching the little mermaid prince return to the sea country and never come back again.

But not long after, Ino came up and threw him two lively fish.

He just said that there are no fish in this sea area: "..."

"There are fish, there are a lot of fish." Ino was a little excited. After throwing the fish away, he swam back quickly.

This is the first time since he became a mermaid that he can swim freely in the sea. It feels really...much more comfortable than being in a bathtub or fish tank.

When he reached the bottom of the sea, he even moved his fingers to make all the fish swim over.

When he first discovered that he had this ability, Ino was still shocked and thought——

Oh my God, what kind of talent is this? Have I awakened some kind of domineering energy that can make these fish surrender obediently?

After thinking about it, he sighed: As expected of me, the son of the plane!

In fact, this is just because he is a royal mermaid. Royal mermaids have a natural deterrent effect on unintelligent sea creatures. Big fish are hard to tell, but small fish basically tremble when they see it and are obedient.

Of course, it is not ruled out that some small fish swam over stupidly after seeing his beautiful tail.

In short, as soon as Ino reached the bottom of the sea, he was surrounded by fish. He was like an emperor drafting, watching the fish lining up and swimming in front of his eyes, picking the fattest among them.

But after catching two, he found that he only had two hands and couldn't catch them at all, so he had to catch two, swim back to the sea, and throw them to Yue Zhan.

But after swimming around a lot, his tail got tired. He couldn't help but think of Zhang Yu and felt a little envious. He had eight hands (feet) and could catch at least eight fish at a time.

Yue Zhan was confused when he picked up fish on the beach. When Ino threw more than 20 fish up, he shouted: "That's enough. If you catch too many fish, you may not be able to finish them all."

Ino's tail happened to be sore, so he said "ok", then swung his tail and swam towards him.

The afterglow of distant stars just shines on this beach, dyeing the sea surface into a golden color.

Yue Zhan watched the little mermaid swimming toward him in this golden patch of gold, and his heart seemed to be illuminated by the afterglow, warm and fulfilling.

When they reached the shoal, Ino couldn't swim anymore. He stretched out his hand over the stack, pulled the little mermaid into his arms, and carried her towards the reef not far away.

Ino was not polite and spontaneously hugged his neck, blushing slightly and thinking: Anyway, we have done more intimate things, so a hug is nothing.

After he was placed on the rocks and sat down, he saw the big fat fish being strung up in strings with ropes made of grass blades. He couldn't help but feel a little proud, and he couldn't help but want to put his hands on his hips for a while.

Yue Zhan had already gathered dry firewood, picked a lot of jam, and even killed two of the fish, preparing to light a fire to roast the fish.

Ino originally wanted to keep a low profile, but his strength did not allow it. After being reserved for a while, he still couldn't hold it back. He said a little proudly: "Am I very powerful? You don't have to worry about food anymore. I am responsible for fishing to support the family, and you are responsible for picking up food."

Firewood for cooking.”

Hey, who said he has no talent for being pampered? Isn't he very good at catching fish? He is also very good at digging small crabs.

The fire just started in Yuezhan, and he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows when he heard this: "Support the family?"

Ino's face suddenly turned red and he hesitated: "This is...an analogy. You just understand what I mean."

Yue Zhan nodded secretly, thinking: Family means being together.

Because he caught the fish himself, Ino felt particularly accomplished. Even though Yue Zhan's grilling skills were not very good, he still ate three fish in a row.

After eating and drinking, he said to Yue Zhan: "Turn back quickly, I'm about to transform."

Yue Zhan: "..." Although it is true, it still feels like a second grade.

At night, the two of them slept in the cave.

Although it is survival in the wilderness, there are fish, (wild) vegetables, berries, and it is a world for two. For Yue Zhan, if he does not consider the question of when he will be rescued, his current life... is actually quite beautiful.

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But things soon turned bad for Ino. He didn't know whether he ate too much or caught a cold. In short, he started to feel uncomfortable in the middle of the night.

He frowned and slept until the next morning. As soon as he walked out of the cave, he saw Yuezhan killing fish.

After seeing the blood and smelling the fishy smell, he frowned and felt a little nauseated by fish for the first time.

But his condition was not serious at this time. When Yuezhan handed the grilled fish to him, he couldn't hold it back and turned around to vomit.

After vomiting, both of them were stunned.

Yue Zhan's first thought was, was the fish he cooked really so unpalatable that he would vomit?
To be continued...