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Chapter 132 Li Qingping, I'm Not Human Anymore! (Seeking Monthly Tickets)

[Successfully loaded the perspective of Unit 3 – "Agubaru, the Shark of the Eternal Abyss". Welcome to the real world.]

A cold notification sound rang in his mind, and Ji Minghuan opened his eyes in a daze.

What came into view was a transparent crystal ball, roughly the size of a football. The crystal ball appeared to be made of glass and filled with salty seawater.

At this moment, his third unit, "Agubaru," was floating in this narrow seawater. The feeling of being enveloped by water from all sides of his body was similar to the warmth and naturalness of his first unit being wrapped in restraints.

It's as if the seawater is part of this body.

When it came to its senses, its water-filled pupils contracted slightly. It looked up and could see a circular opening at the top of the crystal ball, which was now closed.

It can see its own reflection on the glass surface of the crystal ball; it is a blue shark that is only the size of a palm.

The shark's eyes and body were round and swollen, with a dark blue glint in its pupils and a mouthful of small, sharp teeth. It twitched its round, bulging tail, revealing a black dorsal fin behind it.

Small sharks can breathe smoothly in seawater; it's an instinct ingrained in their genes.

Ji Minghuan blinked, staring intently at the small shark reflected on the glass surface without moving.

Recalling the character's background, he thought to himself, "This shark seems to be able to grow many times larger. I'll see how it grows after loading the memories. If I accidentally grow larger and break the crystal ball, wouldn't my undercover game be over before it even begins?"

It twisted its shark head, looking around like a newborn baby.

A crystal ball sits atop a bedside table, revealing a lavishly decorated bedroom. A fireplace glows, its firewood a deep blue, unlike the outside world. From the curtains and carpet to the chandelier and the oil paintings on the walls, everything imbues the space with the air of a medieval nobleman's bedroom.

The shark was looking around when a black and blue panel slowly appeared before its eyes.

Main Quest 1: Devour the legendary whale, "Chicanao," and utterly destroy the Whale Garden.

[Mission Rewards: 3 Attribute Points, 4 Skill Points, 6 Split Points.]

[Main Quest 2: Conceal the identity of "Shark of the Eternal Abyss" and gain the trust of the Third Prince "Caesar" through persuasive words.]

[Mission Rewards: 1 Attribute Points, 1 Skill Points, 1 Split Points.]

"Why do these two main quests make me seem like a bad guy?" Ji Minghuan wondered. "Speaking of which... Li Qingping had previously mentioned the third prince of the Whale Garden to me in a veiled way, saying that the third prince's two older brothers were very evil and harbored murderous intentions towards him. Could it be that this character's main quest is actually to pretend to help the third prince fight for the throne, and then betray him and devour the entire Whale Garden?"

As his thoughts drifted to this point, Ji Minghuan suddenly felt that the main plot of this character was a bit inhuman... Oh no, this thing wasn't human to begin with, and he felt relieved after realizing this.

He learned a crucial lesson from the Salvation Church mentors: to be flexible with moral standards.

Humans judge using human moral systems;

Sharks should be evaluated using the same perspective as sharks. They are just hungry little animals. What's wrong with them eating a whale? There's nothing wrong with the law of the jungle in marine life.

"I'm not human anymore, Li Qingping!" Ji Minghuan thought to himself. "Don't blame me later. I really didn't mean to swallow this whale. It was just a carnivore's instinct, okay?"

[System Prompt: Loading the memories of character number three. After a five-second countdown, the memories of game character number three—"Aguru"—will be infused into your mind. Please be prepared.]

As the system notification sound faded, a sharp pain shot through Ji Minghuan's head, causing him to let out a low groan, as if a pair of red-hot tongs were pressed against his skull.

Even with pain sensitivity turned down to the lowest setting, it's difficult to mask the pain of this nerve tremor.

After all, this is not a human memory, but the memory of an immortal animal.

Compared to this shark's hundreds of years of life on the seabed, a few decades of human experience pale in comparison, like a piece of paper so thin it's practically nonexistent.

After a short while, the headache finally subsided. Ji Minghuan took a deep breath in the water, then slowly closed his eyes and entered his mental world.

When I opened my eyes, the familiar library was still there, the setting sun reddening the room, its sunlight slanting into the building.

Ji Minghuan's spiritual form was still four years old, with a loose nightgown covering her body, which had not yet begun to develop.

He looked up and saw another shadow on the library ceiling—besides the already hanged black pupa and the chess player, there was now a human-sized shark.

The shark was dark blue all over, surrounded by a stream of water that was a mix of black and blue. It was suspended in mid-air by a fishhook, its eyes closed and motionless, like a fresh fish hanging in a market early in the morning.

"Another useless managed personality," Ji Minghuan thought. "Will these corpses fill my library to the brim in the future...? Luckily, this shark didn't appear in my mental world at its original size, otherwise my library would have turned into an aquarium?"

He walked to the bookshelves, and because he had loaded the new character's memories, he could see that the once empty bookshelves were now filled with large numbers of books.

This shark has lived for countless years, hunting in the sea and living a life that repeats itself day after day.

Thus, its memory appears on the bookshelf in the form of children's drawings, omitting many details. With each page turned, a month or even a year has passed in the story of the shark, told in a very rough manner.

Ji Minghuan randomly picked out a few books from the bookshelf and flipped through those memories. Most of them were told from the perspective of a predator about how the last Eternal Abyss Shark survived in the deep sea, like a large-scale TV series called "Underwater Animal World". It was better not to watch them.

But he specifically picked out the last picture book to look at. It said that by 2020, the shark's body would be a full 100 meters long. Although it could be called a behemoth, it was still half the size of the legendary whale.

In other words, if this shark wanted to eat the legendary whale, it would have to grow at least twice its original size.

The character's memories also mention that this shark has the ability to change its size and appearance.

So it shrunk its size to the size of a palm and disguised its appearance as a "Nobel shark"—it was all blue, looked round and smooth, and had none of the ferocity or intimidation of a shark.

This type of shark is also known as the "palm-sized shark." There is no difference in size between a mature Norbe shark and a juvenile Norbe shark. Therefore, in the dog-eat-dog marine environment, Norbe sharks are at a natural disadvantage and are born at the bottom of the food chain.

They can only survive by preying on small fish and eating seaweed, so the number of Nobe sharks is very small. For humans, catching a Nobe shark is like finding a bucket of gold. Many wealthy people in the whale world keep them as pets.

In order to blend into the whale garden, the hundred-meter-long ocean tyrant "Agubaru" had no choice but to lower himself and transform into a "Nobel shark," eventually falling into the king's hands and being given to the third prince as a gift.

In my memory, the third prince was named "Caesar," and he was twelve years old that year.

Caesar is a boy with albinism.

Because he was frail and sickly from a young age, he was often told not to go out casually, and he was not allowed to play in the world of commoners like other princes. So his longest companion was probably this bedroom, which looked luxurious but was actually boring and dull.

To him, this place was like a beautiful birdcage, and he was a bird trapped inside it.

Only occasionally, with his father's permission, would the third prince be allowed to leave his birdcage and see the outside world.

As a result, compared to his peers, the third prince's mental age was actually much lower, at most equivalent to that of a six or seven-year-old child. He was both innocent and introverted, and sickly, so he was unable to get along well with his two older brothers. The eldest and second princes did not usually interact with him, only occasionally visiting him.

As Ji Minghuan was reminiscing, a figure entered the quiet bedroom.

The shark turned its head out of the crystal ball and saw a white-haired, blue-eyed boy.

He wore a crown and a magnificent robe, underneath which was a buttoned shirt. The boy was as pretty as a girl, with long, white eyelashes that drooped over his eyelids.

If I'm not mistaken, this is the third prince of the Whale Kingdom – "Caesar".

The language spoken by the inhabitants of the Whale Garden is Latin, and the Eternal Abyss Shark has an exceptionally strong learning ability. Within a short period of time after entering the Garden, it learned a great deal of grammar.

Ji Minghuan pressed the shark's head close to the surface of the crystal ball and stared at Caesar.

Caesar walked over, his long cloak trailing on the ground like a bird's tail feathers. He picked up the crystal ball from the bedside table and sat down on the soft bed.

"Li Qingping is coming back..." he murmured to himself, lying down on the bed, raising the crystal ball high, looking into the eyes of the shark, his tone filled with undisguised joy.

"Who is Li Qingping? What a silly name. He must be silly too." The shark stared into his eyes and slowly spoke from the crystal ball.

Caesar was slightly taken aback, then slowly, very slowly, his eyes widened.

A vacuum-like silence enveloped the two of them until the shark in the crystal ball broke the silence once more:
"Hey, can't you hear me?"

"A talking Nobel shark!" Caesar belatedly exclaimed, his mouth agape in disbelief.

"Shh! Keep your voice down! If anyone hears me, I'll be roasted and eaten!" the shark whispered.

The man and the shark stared at each other, and Caesar remained stunned for a while before slowly raising the corners of his mouth. His eyes suddenly blazed with a dazzling light, like a child who had just seen a novel toy in a shopping mall.

He first turned his head to look around, making sure no one had seen what was happening, then quickly covered the crystal ball and his body together under the covers. He then leaned close to the crystal ball and asked in a low voice:

"You...can really talk?"

"Or is it a ghost talking?" the shark said. "Shh! This is our secret. Don't tell anyone, or I'll bite my tongue and kill myself inside the crystal ball."

"Mmm, it's a secret!" Caesar nodded obediently, his blue eyes gleaming in the darkness. "Shark, shark, what's your name?"

“Aguruba,” the little shark said.

"No one had ever told me before that Nobel sharks could speak human language, not even in textbooks."

"Because I am a rather noble Nobel shark," the shark said. "In short... the aristocracy of sharks."

Caesar hesitated for a moment, then asked in a low voice, "Then will you eat people? When Father first gave you to me, my brothers scared me by saying that all sharks eat human flesh, including the Norse shark. But the book says that Norse sharks can grow up without eating."

"I don't eat human flesh, I'm a vegetarian, I'm a vegetarian shark." The shark paused and whispered, "I also eat strange fragments, you can feed me those useless strange fragments."

"That's good..." Caesar breathed a sigh of relief. "Wait a minute, are you going to eat the Strange Fragment?"

"Yes, yes!" the shark said smugly, wagging its tail.

“Okay… There are many one-time-use tidbits in the palace, such as ‘moving staircase’ and ‘pigeon messenger’, but secretly taking them might get me scolded by my father and the others.”

"It's okay, you can just secretly take one and feed it to me every day. I have a very small appetite."

As it spoke, the shark puffed out its small chest, as if to prove that it was so small that it must have a small appetite.

“No problem.” Caesar nodded. “Next time I visit the Oddities Archive, I’ll secretly bring back some fragments for you.”

"It's a deal. Liars will have to swallow a thousand needles and their brains will become as stupid as a ghost bell!"

Who is Ghost Bell?

"The name of a stupid pig," the shark said knowledgeably, "a character from the fable 'Father Black Chrysalis and His Three Little Pigs,' don't you know?"

“Oh, you know so much.” Caesar nodded and said with admiration, “I’ve read many books, but I’ve never heard this story before.”

Just then, a ghost pigeon carrying a letter flew in through the window, fluttering its wings, and finally landed slowly on the back of Caesar's hand.

"What is this?" The shark looked at the pigeons outside the crystal ball.

"The 'Pigeon Messenger' is the lowest and most common type of strange fragment. Everyone here uses it to deliver messages."

As Caesar spoke, he unwrapped the letter from the ghost pigeon, and the pigeon vanished in a ghostly green glow.

He glanced at the letter: "This is from Li Qingping. Li Qingping is back!" Caesar looked somewhat excited.

The shark was stunned for a moment, thinking to itself, "Li Qingping, you deserve to die! You're secretly luring a child behind your good friend's back!"
"Oh, then hurry up and bring this Li Qingping over to see me!" it said. "I want to see if he's as stupid as his name suggests."

"Okay, okay, Agubaru, wait for me here! I'll go bring Li Qingping over."

Caesar spoke very quickly, placed the crystal ball on the bedside table, pressed his cheek against the glass, waved at the little shark, and then ran away without looking back.

Through the glass of the crystal ball, Ji Minghuan watched the Third Prince's departing figure through the shark's eyes, and couldn't help but think to herself, "He's really naive and innocent. It seems this prince is well protected. He can't possibly be the kind of person who's all bark and no bite, can he?"

Just then, a black and blue notification panel popped up in front of the shark.

[Main Quest 2 completed – Concealing the identity of "Shark of the Eternal Abyss" and gaining the trust of the Third Prince "Caesar" through persuasive words.]

Upon seeing this, Ji Minghuan couldn't help but roll her eyes.

He thought to himself: They say it's about bewitching the Third Prince, but with the Third Prince's intelligence, does the word 'bewitching' even apply? To put it bluntly, isn't it just coaxing a child? I'm the best at coaxing children. The Salvation Society has a bunch of world-destroying, corrupted kids waiting for me to coax.

[Quest rewards obtained: 1 attribute points, 1 skill points, 1 split points.]

[Main Quest 2 has been updated to Phase 8: Protect Prince Caesar from assassination attempts by the First and Second Princes, ensuring his survival until August 1st.]

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